Love

Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 59

by John Davies of Hereford c. 1565–1618

From Wittes Pilgrimage (1605)

Love

YOur Fauors filling my torne Hart with Hope,
Hope, raising lustlesse Loue, and Loue, Desire,
Desire rests not but in, Deer you, his Scope;
Whose flames stil mount to you, his Spheare of Fire.
Then, if to my desire you will giue rest,
It must be in your staid Loues purer flames:
Then, with his Element, Desire inuest,
Sith his fire compound is, and him vnframes.
Feeling mounts not to Pleasures firmament,
But through this subtill Spheare of simple fire:
Nor Loue attaine the Heau'n of true content,
But by this sweet Repose of his Desire:
Then, if you loue me, as it seems you do,
Rest my Desire, and I will rest yours too.

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Hereford, John Davies of. “Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 59.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/davies_jh/169/.

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