A Nuptial Verse To Mistress Elizabeth Lee, Now Lady Tracy - Richard Mitchley

A Nuptial Verse To Mistress Elizabeth Lee Now Lady Tracy

By Robert Herrick

Spring with the lark most comely bride and meet

Your eager bridegroom with auspicious feet

The morn's far spent and the immortal sun

Corals his cheek to see those rites not done

Fie lovely maid Indeed you are too slow

When to the temple Love should run not go

Dispatch your dressing then and quickly wed;

Then feast and coy't a little then to bed

This day is Love's day and this busy night

Is yours in which you challenged are to fight

With such an arm'd but such an easy foe

As will if you yield lie down conquer'd too

The field is pitch'd but such must be your wars

As that your kisses must outvie the stars

Fall down together vanquished both and lie

Drown'd in the blood of rubies there not die