| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | Echo’s Dirge for Narcissus | | By Ben Jonson (1572–1637) |
| | | SLOW, 1 slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears; | |
| Yet slower, yet; O faintly, gentle springs! | |
| List to the heavy part the music bears, | |
| Woe weeps out her division when she sings. | |
| Droop herbs and flowers; | 5 |
| Fall grief in showers; | |
| Our beauties are not ours: | |
| O, I could still, | |
| Like melting snow upon some craggy hill, | |
| Drop, drop, drop, drop, | 10 |
| Since Nature’s pride is now a withered daffodil. | |
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