Love
Diana: Seventh Decade, Sonnet 2
From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles, ed. M. F. Crow (1896)
Fair grace of graces, muse of muses all,
Thou Paradise, thou only heaven I know!
What influence hath bred my hateful woe,
That I from thee and them am forced to fall?
Thou falled from me, from thee I never shall,
Although my fortunes thou hast brought so low;
Yet shall my faith and service with thee go,
For live I do, on heaven and thee to call.
Banish'd all grace, no graces with me dwell;
Compelled to muse, my muses from me fly;
Excluded heaven, what can remain but hell?
Exiled from paradise, in hate I lie,
Cursing my stars; albeit I find it true,
I lost all these when I lost love and you.
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MLA
Constable, Henry. “Diana: Seventh Decade, Sonnet 2.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/constable/55/.
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Constable, Henry. “Diana: Seventh Decade, Sonnet 2.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/constable/55/.
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