Love

Diana: To his Mistress

by Henry Constable 156?–1604?

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

Love

Grace full of grace, though in these verses here
My love complains of others than of thee,
Yet thee alone I loved, and they by me,
Thou yet unknown, only mistaken were.
Like him which feels a heat now here now there,
Blames now this cause now that, until he see
The fire indeed from whence they causèd be;
Which fire I now do know is you, my dear,
Thus diverse loves dispersèd in my verse
In thee alone for ever I unite,
And fully unto thee more to rehearse;
To him I fly for grace that rules above,
That by my grace I may live in delight,
Or by his grace I never more may love.

MLA

Constable, Henry. “Diana: To his Mistress.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/constable/80/.

Chicago

Constable, Henry. “Diana: To his Mistress.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/constable/80/.

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