Richard Lovelace

Here you will find the Poem Lucasta, Taking The Waters At Tunbridge. of poet Richard Lovelace

Lucasta, Taking The Waters At Tunbridge.

I.
Yee happy floods! that now must passe
 The sacred conduicts of her wombe,
Smooth and transparent as your face,
 When you are deafe, and windes are dumbe.

 II.
Be proud! and if your waters be
 Foul'd with a counterfeyted teare,
Or some false sigh hath stained yee,
 Haste, and be purified there.

 III.
And when her rosie gates y'have trac'd,
 Continue yet some Orient wet,
'Till, turn'd into a gemme, y'are plac'd
 Like diamonds with rubies set.

 IV.
Yee drops, that dew th' Arabian bowers,
 Tell me, did you e're smell or view
On any leafe of all your flowers
 Soe sweet a sent, so rich a hiew?

 V.
But as through th' Organs of her breath
 You trickle wantonly, beware:
Ambitious Seas in their just death
 As well as Lovers, must have share.

 VI.
And see! you boyle as well as I;
 You, that to coole her did aspire,
Now troubled and neglected lye,
 Nor can your selves quench your owne fire.

 VII.
Yet still be happy in the thought,
 That in so small a time as this,
Through all the Heavens you were brought
 Of Vertue, Honour, Love and Blisse.