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UPON SAPPHO SWEETLY PLAYING AND SWEETLY SINGING.
by Robert Herrick
WHEN thou dost play and sweetly sing
Whether it be the voice or string
Or both of them that do agree
Thus to entrance and ravish me
This, this I know, I'm oft struck mute,
And die away upon thy lute.
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Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed. London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 178.
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