1. Endym. Ah! Lycidas, come tell me why Thy whilome merry Oate By thee doth so neglected lye; And never purls a Note? 2. I prithee speake: Lyc. I will. End. Say on: Lyc. 'Tis thou, and only thou, That art the cause Endimion; End. For Loves-sake, tell me how. 3. Lyc. In this regard, that thou do'st play Upon an other Plain: And for a Rurall Roundelay, Strik'st now a Courtly strain. 4. Thou leav'st our Hills, our Dales, our Bowers, Our finer fleeced sheep: (Unkind to us) to spend thine houres, Where Shepheards sho'd not keep. 5. I meane the Court: Let Latmos be My lov'd Endymions Court; End. But I the Courtly State wo'd see: Lyc. Then see it in report. 6. What ha's the Court to do with Swaines, Where Phillis is not known? Nor do's it mind the Rustick straines Of us, or Coridon. 7. Breake, if thou lov'st us, this delay; End. Dear Lycidas, e're long, I vow by Pan, to come away And Pipe unto thy Song. 8. Then Jessimine, with Florabell; And dainty Amarillis, With handsome-handed Drosomell Shall pranke thy Hooke with Lillies. 9. Lyc. Then Tityrus, and Coridon, And Thyrsis, they shall follow With all the rest; while thou alone Shalt lead, like young Apollo. 10. And till thou com'st, thy Lycidas, In every Geniall Cup, Shall write in Spice, Endimion 'twas That kept his Piping up. And my most luckie Swain, when I shall live to see Endimions Moon to fill up full, remember me: Mean time, let Lycidas have leave to Pipe to thee. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TEARS by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING SONGS WITH PRELUDES: REGRET by JEAN INGELOW SUPER FLUMINA BABYLONIS by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE ENOCH ARDEN by ALFRED TENNYSON THE ROSE by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH INTERNAL FIRESIDES by MATHILDE BLIND |