LIKE to Diana in her summer weed, <br /> Girt with a crimson robe of brightest dye, <br /> Goes fair Samela. <br />Whiter than be the flocks that straggling feed <br /> When wash'd by Arethusa faint they lie, <br /> Is fair Samela. <br />As fair Aurora in her morning grey, <br /> Deck'd with the ruddy glister of her love <br /> Is fair Samela; <br />Like lovely Thetis on a calmed day <br /> Whenas her brightness Neptune's fancy move, <br /> Shines fair Samela. <br /> <br />Her tresses gold, her eyes like glassy streams, <br /> Her teeth are pearl, the breasts are ivory <br /> Of fair Samela; <br />Her cheeks like rose and lily yield forth gleams; <br /> Her brows bright arches framed of ebony. <br /> Thus fair Samela <br />Passeth fair Venus in her bravest hue, <br /> And Juno in the show of majesty <br /> (For she 's Samela!), <br />Pallas in wit,--all three, if you well view, <br /> For beauty, wit, and matchless dignity, <br /> Yield to Samela.<br /><br />Robert Greene<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/samela/
