Love

Diana: First Decade, Sonnet 6

by Henry Constable 156?–1604?

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

Love

Mine eye with all the deadly sins is fraught.
First proud, sith it presumed to look so high.
A watchman being made, stood gazing by,
And idle, took no heed till I was caught.
And envious, bears envy that by thought
Should in his absence be to her so nigh.
To kill my heart, mine eye let in her eye;
And so consent gave to a murder wrought.
And covetous, it never would remove
From her fair hair, gold so doth please his sight.
Unchaste, a baud between my heart and love.
A glutton eye, with tears drunk every night.
These sins procurèd have a goddess' ire,
Wherefore my heart is damned in love's sweet fire.

MLA

Constable, Henry. “Diana: First Decade, Sonnet 6.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/constable/7/.

Chicago

Constable, Henry. “Diana: First Decade, Sonnet 6.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/constable/7/.

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