Living

Eternitas

by Henry Peacham 1576?–1643?

From Minerva Britanna (1612)

Living

A VIRGIN faire, purtraicted as you see,
With haire dispred, in comelie wise behind:
Within whose handes, two golden balls there be:
But from the brest, the nether partes are twin'd
Within a starrie circle, do expresse,
Eternitie, or Everlastingnes.

ETERNITIE is young, and never old:
The circle wantes beginning and the end:
And vncorrupt for ever lies the gold:
The heaven her lightes for evermore did lend,
The Heathen thought, though heauen & earth must passe,
And all in time decay that ever was.

MLA

Peacham, Henry. “Eternitas.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/peacham/138/.

Chicago

Peacham, Henry. “Eternitas.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/peacham/138/.

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