Madrigal. William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585-1649). Ora, the River. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. 1876-79. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes. Scotland: Vols. VI-VIII

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79.

Ora, the River

Madrigal

William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649)


TRITONS, which bounding dive
Through Neptune’s liquid plain,
When as ye shall arrive
With tilting tides where silver Ora plays,
And to your king his watery tribute pays,	5
Tell how I dying live,
And burn in midst of all the coldest main.