The Sun Rising

     Thy beams, so reverend, and strong
     Why shouldst thou think?
I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink,
But that I would not lose her sight so long;
     If her eyes have not blinded thine,
     Look, and tomorrow late, tell me,
  Whether both th' Indias of spice and mine
  Be where thou leftst them, or lie here with me.
Ask for those kings whom thou saw'st yesterday,
And thou shalt hear, All here in one bed lay.

     She's all states, and all princes, I,
     Nothing else is.
Princes do but play us; compared to this,
All honour's mimic; all wealth alchemy.
     Thou sun art half as happy as we,
     In that the world's contracted thus;
  Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be
  To warm the world, that's done in warming us.
Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere;
This bed thy centre is, these walls, thy sphere.