Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. II. The Seventeenth Century: Ben Jonson to Dryden

William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585–1649)

Extracts from the Poems: To Chloris

[From Madrigals and Epigrams]

SEE, Chloris, how the clouds

Tilt in the azure lists,

And how with Stygian mists

Each horned hill his giant forehead shrouds;

Jove thund’reth in the air,

The air, grown great with rain,

Now seems to bring Deucalion’s days again.

I see thee quake; come, let us home repair,

Come hide thee in mine arms,

If not for love, yet to shun greater harms.