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.