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

Thomas Carew (1595?–1639?)

Celia Singing

YOU that think love can convey

No other way,

But through the eyes, into the heart,

His fatal dart,

Close up those casements and but hear

This siren sing,

And on the wing

Of her sweet voice it shall appear

That love can enter at the ear.

Then unveil your eyes, behold

The curious mould

Where that voice dwells, and as we know,

When the cocks crow,

We freely may

Gaze on the day,

So may you, when the music ’s done,

Awake and see the rising sun.