| Herbert J.C. Grierson, ed. (1886–1960). Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the 17th C. 1921. |
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| John Donne |
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| 75. "Show me deare Christ, thy spouse, so bright and clear" |
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| SHOW me deare Christ, thy spouse, so bright and clear. | |
| What! is it She, which on the other shore | |
| Goes richly painted? or which rob'd and tore | |
| Laments and mournes in Germany and here? | |
| Sleepes she a thousand, then peepes up one yeare? | 5 |
| Is she selfe truth and errs? now new, now outwore? | |
| Doth she, and did she, and shall she evermore | |
| On one, on seaven, or on no hill appeare? | |
| Dwells she with us, or like adventuring knights | |
| First travaile we to seeke and then make Love? | 10 |
| Betray kind husband thy spouse to our sights | |
| And let myne amorous soule court thy mild Dove, | |
| Who is most trew, and pleasing to thee, then | |
| When she'is embrac'd and open to most men. | |
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