HAD not the soil that bred me further done, And fill'd part of those veins which sweetly do, Much like the living streams of Eden, run, Embracing such a Paradise as you; My Muse had fail'd me in the course I ran, But that she from your virtues took new breath, And from your eyes such fire that, like a swan, She in your praise can sing herself to death. Now could I wish those golden hours unspent, Wherein my fancy led me to the woods, And tun'd soft lays of rural merriment, Of shepherds' loves and never-resting floods: For had I seen you then, though in a dream, Those songs had slept, and you had been my theme. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE POTATOES' DANCE by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY THE NIGHTINGALE by PHILIP SIDNEY |