Sonnet

Innumerable Beauties, thou white haire

Spredde forth like to a Region of the Aire,

Curl’d like a sea, and like Etheriall fire

Dost from thy vitall principles aspire

To bee the highest Element of faire,

From thy proud heights, thou so commandst desire

That when it would presume, it grows, dispare,

And from it selfe a Vengeance doth require,

While absolute in that thy braue command

Knittinge each haire, into an awfull frowne

Like to an Hoste of Lightninges, thou dost stand

To ruine all that fall not prostrate downe;

While to the humble like a beamy Crowne

Thou seemest wreathed, by some immortall Hande.

LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY.