Love

Sonet

by Mark Alexander Boyd 1563–1601

From The Oxford Book of English Verse (1900)

Love

Fra bank to bank, fra wood to wood I rin,
Ourhailit with my feeble fantasie;
Like til a leaf that fallis from a tree,
Or til a reed ourblawin with the win.

Twa gods guides me: the ane of tham is blin,
Yea and a bairn brocht up in vanitie;
The next a wife ingenrit of the sea,
And lichter nor a dauphin with her fin.

Unhappy is the man for evermair
That tills the sand and sawis in the air;
But twice unhappier is he, I lairn,
That feidis in his hairt a mad desire,
And follows on a woman throw the fire,
Led by a blind and teachit by a bairn.

MLA

Boyd, Mark Alexander. “Sonet.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/boyd_ma/0/.

Chicago

Boyd, Mark Alexander. “Sonet.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/boyd_ma/0/.

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