Love
Diana: First Decade, Sonnet 3
From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles, ed. M. F. Crow (1896)
Fly low, dear love, thy sun dost thou not see?
Take heed, do not so near his rays aspire;
Lest, for thy pride, inflamed with wreakful ire,
It burn thy wings, as it hath burnèd me.
Thou haply sayst thy wings immortal be,
And so cannot consumèd be with fire;
And one is hope, the other is desire,
And that the heavens bestowed them both on thee.
A muse's words made thee with hope to fly,
An angel's face desire hath begot,
Thyself engendered by a goddess' eye;
Yet for all this, immortal thou art not.
Of heavenly eye though thou begotten art,
Yet art thou born but of a mortal heart.
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Constable, Henry. “Diana: First Decade, Sonnet 3.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/constable/4/.
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Constable, Henry. “Diana: First Decade, Sonnet 3.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/constable/4/.
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