Love

His Ladies Dog

by William Drummond of Hawthornden 1585–1649

Love

WHen Her deare Bosome clips
That little Cur, which fawnes to touch her Lips,
Or when it is his hap
To lie lap'd in her Lap,
O it grows Noon with me,
With hotter-pointed Beames
I burne, then those are which the Sun forth streames,
When piercing lightning his Rayes call'd may be:
And as I muse how I to shose extreames
Am brought, I find no Cause, except that She
In Loves bright Zodiack having trac'd each Roome,
To the hot Dog-star now at last is come.

MLA

Drummond, William, of Hawthornden. “His Ladies Dog.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/drummond/101/.

Chicago

Drummond, William, of Hawthornden. “His Ladies Dog.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/drummond/101/.

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