| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Idea | | Sonnet 32. Our floods’ Queen, Thames, for ships and swans is crowned | | Michael Drayton (1563–1631) |
| | [First printed in 1594 (No. 24), and in all later editions.]
To the River Ankor |
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OUR floods’ Queen, Thames, for ships and swans is crowned; | |
| And stately Severn, for her shore is praised. | |
| The crystal Trent, for fords and fish renowned; | |
| And Avon’s fame, to Albion’s cliffs is raised, | |
| Carlegion Chester vaunts her holy Dee. | 5 |
| York, many wonders, of her Ouse can tell. | |
| The Peak, her Dove, whose banks so fertile be: | |
| And Kent will say, her Medway doth excel. | |
| Cotswold commends her Isis to the Tame. | |
| Our northern borders boast of Tweed’s fair flood. | 10 |
| Our western parts extol their Wilis’ fame; | |
| And the old Lea brags of the Danish blood. | |
| Arden’s sweet Ankor, let thy glory be, | |
| That fair IDEA only lives by thee! | | | |
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