Love

Sonnet. 42 (Sonnet 42)

by Michael Drayton 1563–1631

From Idea

Love

SOme men there be which like my method well,
And do commend the strangenes of my vaine,
Some say, I haue a passing pleasing straine,
Some say, that in my humor I excell:
Some, who not kindely relish my conceit,
They say (as Poets doe) I vse to faine,
And in bare words paint out my passions paine.
Thus sundry men their sundry mindes repeate;
I passe not I, how men affected be,
Nor who commends, or discommends my verse,
It pleaseth me, if I my woes rehearse,
And in my lines, if she my loue may see:
Onely my comfort still consists in this,
Writing her praise, I cannot write amisso.

MLA

Drayton, Michael. “Sonnet. 42 (Sonnet 42).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/drayton/41/.

Chicago

Drayton, Michael. “Sonnet. 42 (Sonnet 42).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/drayton/41/.

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