StoryTitle("caps", "Rosaline") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like to the clear in highest sphere", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where all imperial glory shines,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of selfsame colour is her hair", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Whether unfolded or in twines:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Heigh ho, fair Rosaline!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her eyes are sapphires set in snow,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Resembling heaven by every wink;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The gods do fear whenas they glow,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And I do tremble when I think", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Heigh ho, would she were mine!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her cheeks are like the blushing cloud", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That beautifies Aurora's face,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or like the silver crimson shroud", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That Phoebus' smiling looks doth grace:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Heigh ho, fair Rosaline!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her lips are like two budded roses", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Whom ranks of lilies neighbour nigh,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Within whose bounds she balm encloses", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Apt to entice a deity:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Heigh ho, would she were mine!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her neck like to a stately tower", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where Love himself imprison'd lies,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To watch for glances every hour", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "From her divine and sacred eyes:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Heigh ho, fair Rosaline!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her paps are centres of delight,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Her breasts are orbs of heavenly frame,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where Nature moulds the dew of light", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To feed perfection with the same:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Heigh ho, would she were mine!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With orient pearl, with ruby red,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With marble white, with sapphire blue,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her body every way is fed,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Yet soft to touch and sweet in view:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Heigh ho, fair Rosaline!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nature herself her shape admires;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The gods are wounded in her sight;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And Love forsakes his heavenly fires", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And at her eyes his brand doth light:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Heigh ho, would she were mine!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then muse not, Nymphs, though I bemoan", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The absence of fair Rosaline,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Since for a fair there's fairer none,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Nor for her virtues so divine:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Heigh ho, fair Rosaline!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Heigh ho, my heart! would God that she were mine!", "") ?>
Poet("Thomas Lodge", "1556-1625") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>