Minor Poems of Michael Drayton eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 351 pages of information about Minor Poems of Michael Drayton.

Minor Poems of Michael Drayton eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 351 pages of information about Minor Poems of Michael Drayton.
doth bring,
    Makes Summer Winter, Autumne in the Spring,
    Crossing sweet nature by vnruly will. 
      Such is the sunne who guides my youthfull season,
      Whose thwarting course depriues the world of reason.

Amour 48

    Who list to praise the dayes delicious lyght,
    Let him compare it to her heauenly eye,
    The sun-beames to the lustre of her sight;
    So may the learned like the similie. 
    The mornings Crimson to her lyps alike,
    The sweet of Eden to her breathes perfume,
    The fayre Elizia to her fayrer cheeke,
    Vnto her veynes the onely Phoenix plume. 
    The Angels tresses to her tressed hayre,
    The Galixia to her more then white. 
    Praysing the fayrest, compare it to my faire,
    Still naming her in naming all delight. 
      So may he grace all these in her alone,
      Superlatiue in all comparison.

Amour 49

    Define my loue, and tell the ioyes of heauen,
    Expresse my woes, and shew the paynes of hell;
    Declare what fate vnlucky starres haue giuen,
    And aske a world vpon my life to dwell. 
    Make knowne that fayth vnkindnes could not moue;
    Compare my worth with others base desert: 
    Let vertue be the tuch-stone of my loue,
    So may the heauens reade wonders in my hart. 
    Behold the Clowdes which haue eclips’d my sunne,
    And view the crosses which my course doth let;
    Tell mee, if euer since the world begunne,
    So faire a Morning had so foule a set? 
      And, by all meanes, let black vnkindnes proue
      The patience of so rare, diuine a loue.

Amour 50

    When I first ended, then I first began;
    The more I trauell, further from my rest;
    Where most I lost, there most of all I wan;
    Pyned with hunger, rysing from a feast. 
    Mee thinks I flee, yet want I legs to goe,
    Wise in conceite, in acte a very sot;
    Rauisht with ioy amidst a hell of woe,
    What most I seeme, that surest I am not. 
    I build my hopes a world aboue the skye,
    Yet with a Mole I creepe into the earth: 
    In plenty am I staru’d with penury,
    And yet I serfet in the greatest dearth. 
      I haue, I want, dispayre, and yet desire,
      Burn’d in a Sea of Ice, and drown’d amidst a fire.

Amour 51

Goe you, my lynes, Embassadours of loue, With my harts tribute to her conquering eyes, From whence, if you one tear of pitty moue For all my woes, that onely shall suffise.  When you Minerua in the sunne behold, At her perfections stand you then and gaze, Where in the compasse of a Marygold, Meridianis sits within a maze.  And let Inuention of her beauty vaunt When Dorus sings his sweet Pamelas loue, And tell the Gods, Mars is predominant, Seated with Sol, and weares Mineruas gloue: 
  And tell the world, that in the world there is
A heauen on earth, on earth no heauen but this.

FINIS.

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