| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | Sweet Rose, Whence Is This Hue? | | By William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649) |
| | | SWEET rose, whence is this hue | |
| Which doth all hues excel? | |
| Whence this most fragrant smell? | |
| And whence this form and gracing grace in you? | |
| In fair Paestana’s fields perhaps you grew, | 5 |
| Or Hybla’s hills you bred, | |
| Or odoriferous Enna’s plains you fed, | |
| Or Tmolus, or where boar young Adon slew; | |
| Or hath the Queen of Love you dyed of new | |
| In that dear blood, which makes you look so red? | 10 |
| No, none of those, but cause more high you blissed, | |
| My lady’s breast you bore, her lips you kissed. | | | | |
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