Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. II. The Seventeenth Century: Ben Jonson to Dryden
Thomas Carew (1595?1639?)In Praise of His Mistress
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Go with me;
Two suns in a heaven of snow
Both burning be,—
All they fire that do but eye them,
Yet the snow ’s unmelted by them.
Guide the way
Where two pearly rows be set,
As white as day;
When they part themselves asunder
She breathes oracles of wonder.
Which contains
Such a jewel, as to miss
Breeds endless pains,—
That ’s her mind, and they that know it
May admire, but cannot show it.