| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Idea | | Sonnet 53. Clear Ankor, on whose silver-sanded shore | | Michael Drayton (1563–1631) |
| | [First printed in 1594 (No. 13), and in all later editions.]
Another to the river Ankor |
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CLEAR Ankor, on whose silver-sanded shore, | |
| My soul-shrined Saint, my fair IDEA lives; | |
| O blessed brook! whose milk-white swans adore | |
| Thy crystal stream, refinèd by her eyes. | |
| Where sweet myrrh-breathing ZEPHYR, in the Spring, | 5 |
| Gently distils his nectar-dropping showers: | |
| Where nightingales in Arden sit and sing | |
| Amongst the dainty dew-impearlèd flowers. | |
| Say thus, fair brook, when thou shalt see thy Queen, | |
| “Lo, here thy shepherd spent his wandering years! | 10 |
| And in these shades, dear Nymph! he oft hath been! | |
| And here to thee, he sacrificed his tears!” | |
| Fair Arden, thou my Tempe art alone! | |
| And thou, sweet Ankor, art my Helicon! | | | |
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