Love

Eccho to Narcissus. In praise of CASTARA'S discreete Love.

by William Habington 1605–1654

Love

SC…rn'd in thy watry Vrne Na…cissus lye,
Thou shalt not force more tribute from my eye
T'increase thy streames: or make me weep a showre,
To adde fresh beauty to thee, now a flowre.
But should relenting heaven restore thee sence,
To see such wisedome temper innocence,
In faire Castara's loves how shee discreet,
Makes causion with a noble freedome meete,
At the same moment; thould'st confesse fond boy,
Fooles onely thinke them vertuous, who are coy.
And wonder not that I, who have no choyce
Of speech, have praysing her so free a voyce▪
Heaven her severest sentence doth repeale,
When to Castara I would speake my zeale.

MLA

Habington, William. “Eccho to Narcissus. In praise of CASTARA'S discreete Love.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/habington/37/.

Chicago

Habington, William. “Eccho to Narcissus. In praise of CASTARA'S discreete Love.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/habington/37/.

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