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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FAIR ORIANA, by ROBERT JONES (1616-)
First Line: Fair oriana, seeming to wink at folly
Last Line: Long live fair oriana!'
Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness
First Line: Fair oriana, seeming to wink at folly
Last Line: Long live fair oriana!'
Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness
FAIR ORIANA, seeming to wink at folly,
Lay softly down a-sleeping,
But hearing that the world was grown unholy,
Her rest was turned to weeping.
So waked, she sighed, and with crossed arms
Sat drinking tears for others' harms,
Then sang the nymphs and shepherds of Diana:
'Long live fair Oriana!'
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