Love

Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 12

by John Davies of Hereford c. 1565–1618

From Wittes Pilgrimage (1605)

Love

FOrbidden hopes? (the comforts of my Care,
Yet Care that kils all comforts cheering me)
I am no more my selfe the whiles you are:
And, yet much more then so, the whiles you be.
If ye stay with me, from my selfe I runne:
If you part from me, past my selfe I fly;
Stay, or part from me, death I cannot shun:
With, or without your helpe, I needs must dy.
I needs must dy, for life-inspiring you:
And dy, if dy you do by whom I liue:
I do decay when I do yee renew;
I grieue with you, but more without you grieue:
O then what choise remaines to wretched me
But to be nought, or not at all to Be.

MLA

Hereford, John Davies of. “Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 12.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/davies_jh/124/.

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Hereford, John Davies of. “Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 12.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/davies_jh/124/.

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