Love

Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 20

by John Davies of Hereford c. 1565–1618

From Wittes Pilgrimage (1605)

Love

WHo cannot loue without to lust it runne
Or els to Passions that as wild appeare,
Are like ill Eyes, that cannot brooke the Suune:
Or most weake Braines, that strong wine cannot beare.
But, in high Loue (whose ase on vertue rests)
Ther's no distemprature of Flesh, or Spritie:
The Mouth of true Loue sucks true Pleasures Brests:
Which it augments with pure (not grosse) delight.
Hence flow all Nectard Sweets into the Soule
That Heau'n, or Earth, (in highest height) can yeeld;
As sweet and faire, as Lust is sowre, and sowle,
And doth (at pleasure) Pleasures Passions weld:
But, he that is impatient in desire,
(As Clogd with flesh) cannot this Heaun aspire.

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Hereford, John Davies of. “Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 20.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/davies_jh/132/.

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Hereford, John Davies of. “Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 20.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/davies_jh/132/.

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