Poems With the Muses Looking-Glasse. Amyntas. Jealous Lovers. Arystippus. By Tho: Randolph ... The fourth Edition enlarged [by Thomas Randolph] |
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On the Death of a Nightingale.
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On the Death of a Nightingale.
Go solitary wood, and henceforth beAcquainted with no other Harmony,
Then the Pyes chattering, or the shreeking note
Of bodeing Owles, and fatall Ravens throat.
The sweetest chanters dead, that warbled forth
Layes that might tempests calm, and still the North,
And call down Angels from their glorious Sphear
To hear her Songs, and learn new Anthems there.
That soul is fled, and to Elision gone;
Thou art a poor desert left; go then and run,
Beg there to stand a grove, and if she please
To sing again beneath thy shadowy Trees;
The souls of happy lovers crown'd with blisses
Shall flock about thee, and keep time with kisses.
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