StoryTitle("caps", "To Roses in the Bosom of Castara ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ye blushing virgins happy are ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In the chaste nunnery of her breasts— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For he'd profane so chaste a fair, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Whoe'er should call them Cupid's nests. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Transplanted thus how bright ye grow!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "How rich a perfume do ye yield! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In some close garden cowslips so ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Are sweeter than i' th' open field. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In those white cloisters live secure ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "From the rude blasts of wanton breath!—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Each hour more innocent and pure, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Till you shall wither into death. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then that which living gave you room, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Your glorious sepulchre shall be. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There wants no marble for a tomb", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Whose breast hath marble been to me.", "") ?>
Poet("William Habington", "1605-1654") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>