Silvia
1564-1616
WHO is Silvia? What is she?
That all our swains commend her?
Holy, fair, and wise is she;
The heaven such grace did lend her,
That she might admired be.
Is she kind as she is fair?
For beauty lives with kindness:
Love doth to her eyes repair,
To help him of his blindness;
And, being help'd, inhabits there.
Then to Silvia let us sing,
That Silvia is excelling;
She excels each mortal thing
Upon the dull earth dwelling:
To her let us garlands bring.
DayPoems Poem No. 125
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/125.html">Silvia by William Shakespeare</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
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