Love

Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 77

by John Davies of Hereford c. 1565–1618

From Wittes Pilgrimage (1605)

Love

BOdies, bee neither Light, nor Heauy ound
So longe as they are in their proper place;
But being out, they shift to It apace,
Bee it aboue, or els beneath the Ground:
Then, Loue, it seemes, is not in his right Spheare,
That in my Hart doth rest in such vnrest;
Who shifteth still to you, he loueth best;
Then, must he rest in you, or els no where.
Receaue my Loue (Deere Loue) then, to that rest,
Sith Diuine Nature made you for the same;
Prove not disloyall to that roiall Dame,
But let vs eache of other be possest:
And, if your vertue simple were before
Thus, beeing purely mixt, it wilbe more.

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Hereford, John Davies of. “Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 77.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/davies_jh/182/.

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Hereford, John Davies of. “Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 77.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/davies_jh/182/.

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