Sabrina Fair, John Milton's Comus
from The Poetry Podcast Hosted by Jessica M
Sabrina fair Listen where thou art sitting [ 860 ] Under the glassie, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of Lillies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair, Listen for dear honours sake, Goddess of the silver lake, [ 865 ] Listen and save. Listen and appear to us In name of great Oceanus, By the earth-shaking Neptune's mace, And Tethys grave majestick pace, [ 870 ] By hoary Nereus wrincled look, And the Carpathian wisard's hook, By scaly Tritons winding shell, And old sooth-saying Glaucus spell, By Leucothea's lovely hands, [ 875 ] And her son that rules the strands, By Thetis tinsel-slipper'd feet, And the Songs of Sirens sweet, By dead Parthenope's dear tomb, And fair Ligea's golden comb, [ 880 ] Wherwith she sits on diamond rocks Sleeking her soft alluring locks, By all the Nymphs that nightly dance Upon thy streams with wily glance, Rise, rise, and heave thy rosie head [ 885 ] From thy coral-pav'n bed, And bridle in thy headlong wave, Till thou our summons answer'd have. Listen and save.
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