Love

Diana: First Decade, Sonnet 5

by Henry Constable 156?–1604?

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

Love

Thine eye the glass where I behold my heart,
Mine eye the window through the which thine eye
May see my heart, and there thyself espy
In bloody colours how thou painted art.
Thine eye the pile is of a murdering dart;
Mine eye the sight thou tak'st thy level by
To hit my heart, and never shoot'st awry.
Mine eye thus helps thine eye to work my smart.
Thine eye a fire is both in heat and light;
Mine eye of tears a river doth become.
O that the water of mine eye had might
To quench the flames that from thine eye doth come,
Or that the fires kindled by thine eye,
The flowing streams of mine eyes could make dry.

MLA

Constable, Henry. “Diana: First Decade, Sonnet 5.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/constable/6/.

Chicago

Constable, Henry. “Diana: First Decade, Sonnet 5.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/constable/6/.

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