Love
Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 25
From Wittes Pilgrimage (1605)
LOue, like a Center, in a Circle standes
As neere to Beggars as Hee doth to Kings:
And like a Kinge them both, alike, Commands,
As Hee commands, likewise all other Things!
What Hart is of such st'eely temprament
(Or much more hard:) for, Steele the Magnes loues)
But gently bowes, when it by Loue is bent?
Onely thy Heart (hard Heart!) Hee nothing moues!
Nature nere made what hath no grace in it;
Then, thee she made not, that art so vnkinde:
So, thou art nothing, sith all Beeings fitt
The Endes, to which, as Meanes, they were assign'd:
Women, are Meanes that Men Bee, bee not then
As Nothing, but with Something, bring some Men.
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Hereford, John Davies of. “Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 25.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/davies_jh/137/.
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Hereford, John Davies of. “Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 25.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/davies_jh/137/.
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