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Poems Of John Dryden: Ode

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Dryden, John

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Ode

To the Pious Memory of the accomplished young lady, Mrs. Anne Killigrew, excellent in the two sister arts of Poesy and Painting

Thou youngest virgin-daughter of the skies, Made in the last promotion of the blest; Whose palms, new pluck'd from Paradise, In spreading branches more sublimely rise, Rich with immortal green above the rest: Whether, adopted to some neighbouring star, Thou roll'st above us, in thy wandering race, Or, in procession fix'd and regular, Moved with the heaven's majestic pace; Or, call'd to more superior bliss, Thou tread'st with seraphims the vast ...

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