| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
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| William Drummond, of Hawthornden. 1585–1649 |
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| 225. Madrigal |
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| LIKE the Idalian queen, | |
| Her hair about her eyne, | |
| With neck and breast's ripe apples to be seen, | |
| At first glance of the morn | |
| In Cyprus' gardens gathering those fair flow'rs | 5 |
| Which of her blood were born, | |
| I saw, but fainting saw, my paramours. | |
| The Graces naked danced about the place, | |
| The winds and trees amazed | |
| With silence on her gazed, | 10 |
| The flowers did smile, like those upon her face; | |
| And as their aspen stalks those fingers band, | |
| That she might read my case, | |
| A hyacinth I wish'd me in her hand. | |
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GLOSS: paramours] = sing. paramour. band] bound. |
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