To My Mistress Sitting by a River’s Side
Thomas Carew
1595 to 1640
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MARK, how yond eddy steals away
From the rude into the bay;
There, lock'd up safe, she doth
Her waters from the channel's course,
And scorns the that did bring
Her headlong from her native spring.
doth she with her new love play,
Whilst he murmuring away.
Mark how she courts the banks, whilst
As amorously their arms display,
T' embrace, and clip silver waves:
See how she strokes their sides, and
An entrance there, which they deny;
Whereat she frowns, threat'ning to fly
Home to her stream, and 'gins to
Backward, but from the channel's brim
Smiling returns into creek,
With thousand dimples on her cheek.
Be this eddy, and I'll make
My breast thy shore, thou shalt take
Secure repose, and never dream
Of quite forsaken stream;
Let him to the wide ocean haste,
There lose his colour, name, and taste:
Thou shalt all, and, safe from him,
Within these arms forever swim.