Love

Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 95

by John Davies of Hereford c. 1565–1618

From Wittes Pilgrimage (1605)

Love

FInding my selfe (before I would be found)
Neer lost in Laborinths of haplesse loue,
I got me to a melancholy groue
To desant on Loues-griefs to heauy Ground:
Where whilft I coucht me to performe the same,
The Flies, and Gnats, without still vexed me;
And Grief, within, as busy as a Bee.
Vnto my treble grief, made double game:
So, while I sought to descant on my Harmes,
My Harms did descant on That which I sought:
For, while I thought on't I was vext in thought;
And, in my Flesh afflicted with thefe Swarms:
Then thought I Louers were like idle Drones.
Whom Stingers follow, to augment their mones.

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Hereford, John Davies of. “Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 95.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/davies_jh/199/.

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Hereford, John Davies of. “Wittes Pilgrimage, Sonnet 95.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/davies_jh/199/.

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