English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 201. Alexis, Here She Stayed; Among These Pines |
| | | William Drummond (1585–1649) |
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| ALEXIS, here she stayed; 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 muskéd eglantines.— | 5 |
| The happy place the print seems yet to bear;— | |
| Her voice did sweeten here thy sugared 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 passéd pleasures double but new woe? | |
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