Love

Sonnet. 5 (Sonnet 5)

by Michael Drayton 1563–1631

From Idea

Love

NOthing but no and I, and I and no,
How falls it out so strangely you reply?
I tell ye (Faire) ile not be aunswered so,
With this affirming no, denying I,
I say I loue, you slender aunswere I,
I say you loue, you pule me out a no;
I say I die, you eccho me with I,
Saue me I cry, you sigh me out a no:
Must woe and I, haue naught but no and I,
No I am I, if I no more can haue,
Aunswere no more, with silence make reply,
And let me take my selfe what I do craue;
Let no and I, with I and you be so,
Then aunswere no, and I, and I, and no.

MLA

Drayton, Michael. “Sonnet. 5 (Sonnet 5).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/drayton/4/.

Chicago

Drayton, Michael. “Sonnet. 5 (Sonnet 5).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/drayton/4/.

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