StoryTitle("caps", "Spring Bereaved III ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Alexis, here she stay'd; among these pines,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sweet hermitress, she did alone repair; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Here did she spread the treasure of her hair, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "More rich than that brought from the Colchian mines. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "She set her by these muskéd eglantines, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "—The happy place the print seems yet to bear: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her voice did sweeten here thy sugar'd lines, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To which winds, trees, beasts, birds, did lend their ear. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Me here she first perceived, and here a morn ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of bright carnations did o'erspread her face; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Here did she sigh, here first my hopes were born, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And I first got a pledge of promised grace: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But ah! what served it to be happy so? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sith passéd pleasures double but new woe?", "") ?>
Poet("William Drummond of Hawthornden", "1585-1649") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>