Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. II. The Seventeenth Century: Ben Jonson to Dryden
Lord Herbert of Cherbury (15831648)Upon Combing Her Hair
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Open and shine yet more, shine out more clear,
Thou glorious, golden beam of darling hair,
Even till my wonder-stricken senses fail.
Thou much more fair than is the Queen of Love
When she doth comb her on her sphere above,
And from a planet turns a blazing star.
Depends on thee, than on her influence;
No hair thy fatal hand doth now dispense
But to some one a thread of life must be.
Those glories which, if they united were,
Might have amazed sense, and shew’st each hair
Which if alone had been too great a wonder.
While she withdraws these glories which were spread;
Wonder of beauties, set thy radiant head,
And strike out day from thy yet fairer eyes.