| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | | | The Favour | | By Henry Vaughan (1621–1695) |
| | | O THY bright looks! Thy glance of love | |
| Shown, and but shown, me from above! | |
| Rare looks! that can dispense such joy | |
| As without wooing wins the coy, | |
| And makes him mourn, and pine, and die, | 5 |
| Like a starv’d eaglet, for Thine eye. | |
| Some kind herbs here, though low and far, | |
| Watch for and know their loving star. | |
| O let no star compare with Thee! | |
| Nor any herb out-duty me! | 10 |
| So shall my nights and mornings be | |
| Thy time to shine, and mine to see. | | | | |
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