Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham

To Amoret

1 Amoret! the Milky Way
    Framed of many nameless stars!
  The smooth stream where none can say
    He this drop to that prefers!

2 Amoret! my lovely foe!
    Tell me where thy strength does lie?
  Where the pow’r that charms us so?
    In thy soul, or in thy eye?

3 By that snowy neck alone,
    Or thy grace in motion seen,
  No such wonders could he done;
    Yet thy waist is straight and clean
  As Cupid’s shaft, or Hermes’ rod,
  And pow’rful, too, as either god.