The poems of William Habington Edited with introduction and commentary by Kenneth Allott |
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![]() | The poems of William Habington | ![]() |
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To CASTARA.
Of the knowledge of Love.
Where sleepes the North-wind when the South inspiresLife in the spring, and gathers into quires
The scatter'd Nightingales; whose subtle eares
Heard first th' harmonious language of the Spheares;
Whence hath the stone Magneticke force t' allure
Th' enamourd iron; From a seed impure
Or naturall did first the Mandrake grow;
What powre ith' Ocean makes it ebbe and flow;
What strange materials is the azure skye
Compacted of; of what its brightest eye
The ever flaming Sunne; what people are
In th' unknowne world; what worlds in every star;
Let curious fancies at this secret rove;
Castara what we know, wee'le practise, Love.
![]() | The poems of William Habington | ![]() |