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