Love
Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 77
From Wittes Pilgrimage (1605)
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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