Love
Diana: Sixth Decade, Sonnet 1
From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles, ed. M. F. Crow (1896)
One sun unto my life's day gives true light.
One moon dissolves my stormy night of woes.
One star my fate and happy fortune shows.
One saint I serve, one shrine with vows I dight.
One sun transfix'd hath burnt my heart outright,
One moon opposed my love in darkness throws.
One star hath bid my thoughts my wrongs disclose.
Saints scorn poor swains, shrines do my vows no right.
Yet if my love be found a holy fire,
Pure, unstained, without idolatry,
And she nathless in hate of my desire,
Lives to repose her in my misery,
My sun, my moon, my star, my saint, my shrine,
Mine be the torment but the guilt be thine!
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MLA
Constable, Henry. “Diana: Sixth Decade, Sonnet 1.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/constable/44/.
Chicago
Constable, Henry. “Diana: Sixth Decade, Sonnet 1.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/constable/44/.
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