Love
Diana: Second Decade, Sonnet 6
From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles, ed. M. F. Crow (1896)
Wonder it is and pity is't that she
In whom all beauty's treasure we may find,
That may unrich the body and the mind,
Towards the poor should use no charity.
My love has gone a begging unto thee.
And if that beauty had not been more kind
That pity, long ere this he had been pined;
But beauty is content his food to be.
O pity have when such poor orphans beg!
Love, naked boy, hath nothing on his back;
And though he wanteth neither arm nor leg,
Yet maimed he is sith he his sight doth lack.
And yet though blind he beauty can behold,
And yet though naked he feels more heat than cold.
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MLA
Constable, Henry. “Diana: Second Decade, Sonnet 6.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/constable/17/.
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Constable, Henry. “Diana: Second Decade, Sonnet 6.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/constable/17/.
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