| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | Æglamour’s Lament | | By Ben Jonson (1572–1637) |
| | | HERE she was wont to go, and here, and here! | |
| Just where those daisies, pinks, and violets grow: | |
| The world may find the spring by following her; | |
| For other print her airy steps ne’er left: | |
| Her treading would not bend a blade of grass, | 5 |
| Or shake the downy blow-ball 1 from his stalk; | |
| But like the soft west-wind she shot along; | |
| And where she went, the flowers took thickest root | |
| As she had sowed them 2 with her odourous foot. | |
| | | Note 1. Downy blow-ball: The downy head of the dandelion. [back] | | Note 2. As she had sown them: Compare Sidney’s, “Who hath the feet, whose step all sweetness planteth.”—First Song. Astrophel and Stella. [back] | | |
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