StoryTitle("caps", "From Comus: Third Selection ") ?>
Sabrina
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Spirit sings:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Sabrina fair ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Listen where thou art sitting ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Under the glassie, cool, translucent wave, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "In twisted braids of Lillies knitting ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Listen for dear honour's sake, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Goddess of the silver lake, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L14", "", "Listen and save! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Listen and appear to us, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "In name of great Oceanus,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "By the earth-shaking Neptune's mace, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And Tethys grave majestick pace, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "By hoary Nereus wrincled look, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And the Carpathian wisards hook, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "By scaly Tritons winding shell,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And old sooth-saying Glaucus spell, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "By Leucothea's lovely hands, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And her son that rules the strands, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "By Thetis tinsel-slipper'd feet, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And the Songs of Sirens sweet,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "By dead Parthenope's dear tomb, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And fair Ligea's golden comb, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Wherwith she sits on diamond rocks ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Sleeking her soft alluring locks, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "By all the Nymphs that nightly dance", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Upon thy streams with wily glance, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Rise, rise, and heave thy rosie head ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "From thy coral-pav'n bed, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And bridle in thy headlong wave, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Till thou our summons answered have.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L14", "", "Listen and save! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sabrina replies:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "By the rushy-fringéd bank, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Where grows the Willow and the Osier dank, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "My sliding Chariot stayes, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Thick set with Agat, and the azurn sheen", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Of Turkis blew, and Emrauld green ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "That in the channell strayes, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Whilst from off the waters fleet ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Thus I set my printless feet ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "O're the Cowslips Velvet head,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "That bends not as I tread, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Gentle swain at thy request ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "I am here.", "") ?>
Poet("John Milton", "1608–1674") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>