Tell, if thou canst, (and truly) whence doth come This Camphire, Storax, Spiknard, Galbanum: These Musks, these Ambers, and those other smells (Sweet as the Vestrie of the Oracles.) Ile tell thee; while my Julia did unlace Her silken bodies, but a breathing space: The passive Aire such odour then assum'd, As when to Jove Great Juno goes perfum'd. Whose pure-Immortall body doth transmit A scent, that fills both Heaven and Earth with it. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONNET: TO J.M.K. by ALFRED TENNYSON THE JACOBITE ON TOWER HILL by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY |