Love
Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 32
From Wittes Pilgrimage (1605)
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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