The Mind
Other Sonnets vpon other Subiects, 9
From Wittes Pilgrimage (1605)
SEarch all the Sonnets set Loue wealth to wynne,
And you shall see (how euer darkly donne)
That lightly with the Eye they do begin
As if Loues heate, and Witts, came from that Sunne.
And I, as if the Eye bewitched mee,
Oft sett my Sonetts Seane iust in the Eye
Of beaming Beauty, that it, so, may see
Wherein consists Loues Comick-Tragedie.
Thus is the Sences So'raignes Subiect, made
Loues Sonetts Subiect, in faire Paper-Reames;
Sith with Loues fire it doth the Hart inuade:
For, that cold Christall burnes with Beauties Beames.
Then ô the Eye, the Eye! I, I, that's it
Wherein men see their want of Grace, and Wit.
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Hereford, John Davies of. “Other Sonnets vpon other Subiects, 9.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/davies_jh/213/.
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Hereford, John Davies of. “Other Sonnets vpon other Subiects, 9.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/davies_jh/213/.
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