56386386Her lily hand her rosy cheek lies under,
387387Coz'ning the pillow of a lawful kiss,
388388Who, therefore angry, seems to part in sunder,
389389Swelling on either side to want his bliss;
390390Between whose hills her head entombèd is;
391391Where like a virtuous monument she lies,
392392To be admired of lewd unhallowed eyes.
57393393Without the bed her other fair hand was,
394394On the green coverlet whose perfect white
395395Showed like an April daisy on the grass,
396396With pearly sweat resembling dew of night.
397397Her eyes, like marigolds, had sheathed their light,
398398And canopied in darkness sweetly lay
399399Till they might open to adorn the day.
58400400Her hair, like golden threads, played with her breath,
401401O modest wantons, wanton modesty!
402402Showing life's triumph in the map of death,
403403And death's dim look in life's mortality.
404404Each in her sleep themselves so beautify,
405405As if between them twain there were no strife,
406406But that life lived in death and death in life.
59407407Her breasts like ivory globes circled with blue,
408408A pair of maiden worlds unconquerèd,
409409Save of their lord no bearing yoke they knew,
410410And him by oath they truly honorèd.
411411These worlds in Tarquin new ambition bred,
412412Who like a foul usurper went about
413413From this fair throne to heave the owner out.
60414414What could he see, but mightily he noted?
415415What did he note, but strongly he desired?
416416What he beheld, on that he firmly doted,
417417And in his will his willful eye he tired.
418418With more than admiration he admired
419419Her azure veins, her alabaster skin,
420420Her coral lips, her snow-white dimpled chin.