Love

Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 32

by John Davies of Hereford c. 1565–1618

From Wittes Pilgrimage (1605)

Love

IT is as true, as strange (els Triall faines)
That whosoeuer in the Moone-shine sleepes
Are hardly wak't, the Moone so rules the Braines;
For Shee is Soueraigne of the Braines, aud Deepes:
So thou (faire Cynthia) with thy borrowed Beames,
(Borrow'd of Glories Sunne, great Lord of Light!)
Makst me still sleepe, in Loue, Whose golden Dreames
Giue Loue right Currant, sith well-Coyn'd, Delight.
I cannot wake, while thou, on me, dost shine,
Thy shyning so, makes mee so sweetly Dreame:
For, still me thinks I kisse those lippes of thine:
And,—nothing els, for, I will not blaspheame:
But thought is free, and Dreames, are Dreames, and so
I dreame, and dreame, and dreame, but let That go.

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Hereford, John Davies of. “Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 32.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/davies_jh/144/.

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Hereford, John Davies of. “Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 32.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/davies_jh/144/.

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