TEll me ye merchants daughters did ye see <br />So fayre a creature in your towne before, <br />So sweet, so louely, and so mild as she, <br />Adornd with beautyes grace and vertues store, <br />Her goodly eyes lyke Saphyres shining bright, <br />Her forehead yuory white, <br />Her cheekes lyke apples which the sun hath rudded, <br />Her lips lyke cherryes charming men to byte, <br />Her brest like to a bowle of creame vncrudded, <br />Her paps lyke lyllies budded, <br />Her snowie necke lyke to a marble towre, <br />And allher body like a pallace fayre, <br />Ascending vppe with many a stately stayre, <br />To honors seat and chastities sweet bowre. <br />Why stand ye still ye virgins in amaze, <br />Vpon her so to gaze, <br />Whiles ye forget your former lay to sing, <br />To which the woods did answer and your eccho ring<br /><br />Edmund Spenser<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/poem-10-2/
