StoryTitle("caps", "To~a~Lady") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sweet rois of vertew and of gentilness,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Delytsum lily of everie lustynes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Richest in bontie and in bewtie clear,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And everie vertew that is wenit dear,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Except onlie that ye are mercyless ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Into your garth this day I did persew;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There saw I flowris that fresche were of hew;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Baith quhyte and reid most lusty were to seyne,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And halesome herbis upon stalkis greene;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet leaf nor flowr find could I nane of rew. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I doubt that Merche, with his cauld blastis keyne,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Has slain this gentil herb, that I of mene;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Quhois piteous death dois to my heart sic paine", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That I would make to plant his root againe,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So confortand his levis unto me bene.", "") ?>
Poet("William Dunbar", "1465-1520?") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>