Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. II. The Seventeenth Century: Ben Jonson to Dryden
William Drummond of Hawthornden (15851649)Extracts from the Poems: To Chloris
[From Madrigals and Epigrams]
S
Tilt in the azure lists,
And how with Stygian mists
Each horned hill his giant forehead shrouds;
Jove thund’reth in the air,
The air, grown great with rain,
Now seems to bring Deucalion’s days again.
I see thee quake; come, let us home repair,
Come hide thee in mine arms,
If not for love, yet to shun greater harms.