| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | | | Song by Lady Happy, as a Sea-Goddess | | By Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1624?–1674) |
| | | MY 1 cabinets are oyster-shells, | |
| In which I keep my Orient pearls: | |
| And modest coral I do wear, | |
| Which blushes when it touches air. | |
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| On silver waves I sit and sing, | 5 |
| And then the fish lie listening: | |
| Then resting on a rocky stone | |
| I comb my hair with fishes bone: | |
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| The whilst Apollo with his beams | |
| Doth dry my hair from soaking streams, | 10 |
| His light doth glaze the water’s face, | |
| And make the sea my looking glass. | |
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| So when I swim on waters high, | |
| I see myself as I glide by, | |
| But when the sun begins to burn, | 15 |
| I back into my waters turn, | |
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| And dive unto the bottom low: | |
| Then on my head the waters flow | |
| In curlèd waves and circles round, | |
| And thus with eddies I am crowned. | 20 |
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