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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO MY MISTRESS SITTING BY A RIVER'S SIDE; AN EDDY, by THOMAS CAREW Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Mark how yon eddy steals away
Last Line: Within these arms for ever swim.
Subject(s): Rivers
First Line: Mark how yon eddy steals away
Last Line: Within these arms for ever swim.
Subject(s): Rivers
MARK how yon eddy steals away
From the rude stream into the bay;
There lock'd up safe, she doth divorce
Her waters from the channel's course,
And scorns the torrent that did bring
Her headlong from her native spring.
Now doth she with her new love play,
Whilst he runs murmuring away.
Mark how she courts the banks, whilst they
As amorously their arms display,
T' embrace and clip her silver waves:
See how she strokes their sides, and craves
An entrance there, which they deny;
Whereat she frowns, threat'ning to fly
Home to her stream, and 'gins to swim
Backward, but from the channel's brim
Smiling returns into the creek,
With thousand dimples on her cheek.
Be thou this eddy, and I'll make
My breast thy shore, where thou shalt take
Secure repose, and never dream
Of the quite forsaken stream;
Let him to the wide ocean haste,
There lose his colour, name, and taste:
Thou shalt save all, and, safe from him,
Within these arms for ever swim.
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