This, as an Amber drop enwraps a Bee, Covering discovers your quicke Soule; that we May in your through-shine front your hearts thoughts see. You teach (though wee learne not) a thing unknowne To our late times, the use of specular stone, Through which all things within without were shown. Of such were Temples; so and such you are; _Beeing_ and _seeming_ is your equall care, And _vertues_ whole _summe_ is but _know_ and _dare_. The long poem dedicated to the same lady's beauty, You have refin'd me is in a like dazzling and subtle vein. Those addressed to Mrs. Herbert, notably the letter Mad paper stay, and the beautiful _Elegie_ No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnall face, are less transcendental in tone but bespeak an even warmer admiration. Indeed it is clear to any careful reader that in the poems addressed to both these ladies there is blended with the respectful flattery of the dependant not a little of the tone of warmer feeling permitted to the 'servant' by Troubadour convention. And I suspect that some poems, the tone of which is still more frankly and ardently lover-like, were addressed to Lady Bedford and Mrs. Herbert, though they have come to us without positive indication. The title of the subtle, passionate, sonorous lyric _Twicknam Garden_, Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares, points to the person addressed, for Twickenham Park was the residence of Lady Bedford from 1607 to 1618, and Donne's intimacy with her seems to have begun in or about 1608. There can, I think, be little doubt that it is to her, and neither to his wife nor the mistresses of his earlier, wandering fancy, that these lines, conventional in theme but given an amazing _timbre_ by the impulse of Donne's subtle and passionate mind, were addressed. But if _Twicknam Garden_ was written to Lady Bedford, so also, one is tempted to think, must have been _A Nocturnall upon S. Lucies Day_, for Lucy was the Countess's name, and the thought, feeling, and rhythm of the two poems are strikingly similar.