Love

Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 91

by John Davies of Hereford c. 1565–1618

From Wittes Pilgrimage (1605)

Love

IN Nature are two supreame Principles:
As namely, Vnity, and Binarie:
The first doth forme all Beauties Miracles:
The last's the Fount of all Deformitie.
The Forme of Number is this Vnitie:
(Number, the Matter: Vnitie, the Forme)
Confusion, springeth from Duality:
Which doth the frame of Nature quite deforme:
Then sith that Vnity hath so great grace,
And that Duality bee so deform'd:
Letts not bee two (faire Sweete) but fast embrace
The Meane whereby wee may bee still conform'd:
Or, if wee shall bee Two (ô fairest Faire!)
Let you, and I make but one perfect Paire.

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Hereford, John Davies of. “Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 91.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/davies_jh/195/.

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Hereford, John Davies of. “Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 91.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/davies_jh/195/.

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