Love
(untitled)
Love
OF JET,
Or PORPHYRIE,
Or that white Stone
PAROS affords alone,
Or these in AZURE dye,
Which seem to scorn the SKIE;
Here Memphis Wonders do not set,
Nor ARTEMISIA'S huge Frame,
That keeps so long her Lovers Name:
Make no great marble Atlas stoop with Gold
To please the Vulgar EYE shall it behold.
The Muses, Phoebus, Love, have raised of their teares
A Crystal Tomb to him, through which his worth appears.
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MLA
Drummond, William, of Hawthornden. “(untitled).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/drummond/87/.
Chicago
Drummond, William, of Hawthornden. “(untitled).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/drummond/87/.
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