StoryTitle("caps", "Madrigal") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like the Idalian queen, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Her hair about her eyne, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With neck and breast's ripe apples to be seen, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "At first glance of the morn ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In Cyprus' gardens gathering those fair flow'rs ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Which of her blood were born, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I saw, but fainting saw, my paramours. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Graces naked danced about the place, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The winds and trees amazed ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With silence on her gazed, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The flowers did smile, like those upon her face; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And as their aspen stalks those fingers band, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That she might read my case, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A hyacinth I wish'd me in her hand.", "") ?>
Poet("William Drummond of Hawthornden", "1585-1649") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>