StoryTitle("caps", "Sirena") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Near to the silver Trent", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sirena dwelleth;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She to whom Nature lent", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All that excelleth;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By which the Muses late", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the neat Graces", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Have for their greater state", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Taken their places;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Twisting an anadem", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Wherewith to crown her,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As it belong'd to them", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Most to renown her.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "On thy bank,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "In a rank,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Let thy swans sing her,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "And with their music", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Along let them bring her.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tagus and Pactolus", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Are to thee debtor,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor for their gold to us", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Are they the better:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Henceforth of all the rest", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Be thou the River", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which, as the daintiest,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Puts them down ever.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For as my precious one", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "O'er thee doth travel,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She to pearl paragon", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Turneth thy gravel.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "On thy bank,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "In a rank,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Let thy swans sing her,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "And with their music", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Along let them bring her.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Our mournful Philomel,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That rarest tuner,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Henceforth in Aperil", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Shall wake the sooner,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And to her shall complain", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "From the thick cover,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Redoubling every strain", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Over and over:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For when my Love too long", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Her chamber keepeth,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As though it suffer'd wrong,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The Morning weepeth.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "On thy bank,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "In a rank,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Let thy swans sing her,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "And with their music", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Along let them bring her.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oft have I seen the Sun,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To do her honour,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fix himself at his noon", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To look upon her;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And hath gilt every grove,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Every hill near her,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With his flames from above", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Striving to cheer her:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And when she from his sight", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Hath herself turnéd,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He, as it had been night,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In clouds hath mournéd.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "On thy bank,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "In a rank,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Let thy swans sing her,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "And with their music", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Along let them bring her.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The verdant meads are seen,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When she doth view them,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In fresh and gallant green", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Straight to renew them;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And every little grass", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Broad itself spreadeth,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Proud that this bonny lass", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Upon it treadeth:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor flower is so sweet", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In this large cincture,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But it upon her feet", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Leaveth some tincture.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "On thy bank,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "In a rank,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Let thy swans sing her,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "And with their music", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Along let them bring her.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The fishes in the flood,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When she doth angle,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For the hook strive a-good", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Them to entangle;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And leaping on the land,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "From the clear water,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Their scales upon the sand", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Lavishly scatter;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Therewith to pave the mould", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Whereon she passes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So herself to behold", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As in her glasses.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "On thy bank,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "In a rank,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Let thy swans sing her,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "And with their music", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Along let them bring her.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When she looks out by night,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The stars stand gazing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like comets to our sight", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Fearfully blazing;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As wond'ring at her eyes", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With their much brightness,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which so amaze the skies,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Dimming their lightness.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The raging tempests are calm", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When she speaketh,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Such most delightsome balm", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "From her lips breaketh.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "On thy bank,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "In a rank,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Let thy swans sing her,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "And with their music", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Along let them bring her.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In all our Brittany", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "There's not a fairer,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor can you fit any", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Should you compare her.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Angels her eyelids keep,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All hearts surprising;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which look whilst she doth sleep", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Like the sun's rising:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She alone of her kind", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Knoweth true measure,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And her unmatchéd mind", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Is heaven's treasure.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "On thy bank,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "In a rank,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Let thy swans sing her,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "And with their music", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Along let them bring her.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fair Dove and Darwen clear,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Boast ye your beauties,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To Trent your mistress here", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Yet pay your duties:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My Love was higher born", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Tow'rds the full fountains,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet she doth moorland scorn", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the Peak mountains;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor would she none should dream", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where she abideth,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Humble as is the stream", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Which by her slideth.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "On thy bank,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "In a rank,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Let thy swans sing her,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "And with their music", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Along let them bring her.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet my pour rustic Muse", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Nothing can move her,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor the means I can use,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Though her true lover:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Many a long winter's night", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Have I waked for her,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet this my piteous plight", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Nothing can stir her.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All thy sands, silver Trent,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Down to the Humber,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The sighs that I have spent", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Never can number.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "On thy bank,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "In a rank,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Let thy swans sing her,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "And with their music", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Along let them bring her.", "") ?>
Poet("Michael Drayton", "1563-1631") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>