Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
William Shakespeare. 15641616123. Silvia
WHO is Silvia? What is she? | |
That all our swains commend her? | |
Holy, fair, and wise is she; | |
The heaven such grace did lend her, | |
That she might admirèd be. | 5 |
Is she kind as she is fair? | |
For beauty lives with kindness: | |
Love doth to her eyes repair, | |
To help him of his blindness; | |
And, being help’d, inhabits there. | 10 |
Then to Silvia let us sing, | |
That Silvia is excelling; | |
She excels each mortal thing | |
Upon the dull earth dwelling: | |
To her let us garlands bring. | 15 |