Love

Diana: First Decade, Sonnet 2

by Henry Constable 156?–1604?

From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles, ed. M. F. Crow (1896)

Love

Blame not my heart for flying up so high,
Sith thou art cause that it this flight begun;
For earthly vapours drawn up by the sun,
Comets become, and night suns in the sky.
Mine humble heart, so with thy heavenly eye
Drawn up aloft, all low desires doth shun;
Raise thou me up, as thou my heart hast done,
So during night in heaven remain may I.
I say again, blame not my high desire,
Sith of us both the cause thereof depends.
In thee doth shine, in me doth burn a fire,
Fire draws up other, and itself ascends.
Thine eye a fire, and so draws up my love;
My love a fire, and so ascends above.

MLA

Constable, Henry. “Diana: First Decade, Sonnet 2.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/constable/3/.

Chicago

Constable, Henry. “Diana: First Decade, Sonnet 2.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/constable/3/.

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