Love

Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 22

by John Davies of Hereford c. 1565–1618

From Wittes Pilgrimage (1605)

Love

SO looks an Angell on Heauns Christall Wall
As looks my Saint, or Angell in her Glasse:
Each see in each, they are Celestiall;
Hir flesh then, being Heaunly, is not Grasse:
Grasse no: ô no, though Grasse doth glad the Eie
With Ey-delighting Greennesse, its too darke
To be like her dine Serenity
That, of highst GLORY, is a flaming Spark!
Which sets the World on fire, and al therein,
Like Phaetons Pride (the Proude should I now that Story)
No Eye sees it but would lose sight to win
That Light, by which Eyes see, Sight dimd with glory!
O might mine Eies be dimd stil, with that Light
I would be nought but Eies, yet blinded quite!

MLA

Hereford, John Davies of. “Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 22.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/davies_jh/134/.

Chicago

Hereford, John Davies of. “Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 22.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/davies_jh/134/.

Read this poem with the Codex →

More by John Davies of Hereford