Love
Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 55
From Wittes Pilgrimage (1605)
SHee comes, Shee comes, mount, mount my Soule
Vnto the heigth of Admiration!
See how the Sunne him selfe begins to scoule
To see a fairer Sunne the Earth vpon!
O glorious Light (which makes our Hemispheare
Like Iupiters Starre-Chamber with thy Raies!)
How dost thou mee confound with Loue, and feare?
What praise but Wonder, can thy Wonders praise!
Stand, stand a loose, come not to neere mine Eyes:
For, thou wilt make them lightlesse with thy Light!
O mee! my Hart, how with thy Beames, it Fryes!
What mean'st (ô Miracle!) to melt mee quite?
Hold, hold; no more: thy Beames from me auert,
Vnlesse, from them, Thou hide me in thy Hart.
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Hereford, John Davies of. “Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 55.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/davies_jh/165/.
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Hereford, John Davies of. “Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 55.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/davies_jh/165/.
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