Henry Constable

Gender: 
Male
  • My lady's presence makes the roses red,
    Because to see her lips they blush for shame.
    The lily's leaves, for envy, pale became,
    And her white hands in them this envy bred.
    The marigold the leaves abroad doth spread,
    Because the sun's and her power is the same.
    The...

  • Diaphenia, like the daffadowndilly,
    White as the sun, fair as the lily,
    Heigh ho, how I do love thee!
    I do love thee as my lambs
    Are belovëd of their dams—
    How blest were I if thou wouldst prove me!

    Diaphenia, like the spreading roses,
    That in thy...