| Herbert J.C. Grierson, ed. (1886–1960). Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the 17th C. 1921. |
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| Thomas Carew |
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| 32. A Song |
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| ASK me no more where Jove bestowes, | |
| When June is past, the fading rose: | |
| For in your beauties orient deep, | |
| These Flowers as in their causes sleep. | |
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| Ask me no more whither doe stray | 5 |
| The golden Atomes of the day: | |
| For in pure love heaven did prepare | |
| Those powders to inrich your hair. | |
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| Ask me no more whither doth hast | |
| The Nightingale, when May is past: | 10 |
| For in your sweet dividing throat | |
| She winters, and keeps warm her note. | |
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| Ask me no more where those starres light, | |
| That downwards fall in dead of night: | |
| For in your eyes they sit, and there, | 15 |
| Fixed, become as in their sphere. | |
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| Ask me no more if East or West, | |
| The Phenix builds her spicy nest: | |
| For unto you at last she flyes, | |
| And in your fragrant bosome dies. | 20 |
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