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Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
William Drummond, of Hawthornden. 15851649
225. Madrigal
LIKE the Idalian queen, | |
Her hair about her eyne, | |
With neck and breast’s ripe apples to be seen, | |
At first glance of the morn | |
In Cyprus’ gardens gathering those fair flow’rs | 5 |
Which of her blood were born, | |
I saw, but fainting saw, my paramours. | |
The Graces naked danced about the place, | |
The winds and trees amazed | |
With silence on her gazed, | 10 |
The flowers did smile, like those upon her face; | |
And as their aspen stalks those fingers band, | |
That she might read my case, | |
A hyacinth I wish’d me in her hand. | |
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GLOSS: paramours] = sing. paramour. band] bound. |