Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
William Drummond, of Hawthornden. 15851649228. Spring Bereaved 3
ALEXIS, here she stay’d; among these pines, | |
Sweet hermitress, she did alone repair; | |
Here did she spread the treasure of her hair, | |
More rich than that brought from the Colchian mines. | |
She set her by these muskèd eglantines, | 5 |
—The happy place the print seems yet to bear: | |
Her voice did sweeten here thy sugar’d lines, | |
To which winds, trees, beasts, birds, did lend their ear. | |
Me here she first perceived, and here a morn | |
Of bright carnations did o’erspread her face; | 10 |
Here did she sigh, here first my hopes were born, | |
And I first got a pledge of promised grace: | |
But ah! what served it to be happy so? | |
Sith passèd pleasures double but new woe? |