Love
To Harmonie. Sonnet. 6 (Sonnet 6)
From Idea
LOue once would daunce within my Mistresse eye.
And wanting musique fitting for the place,
Swore that I should the instrument supply,
And sodainely presents me with her face;
Straitwaies my pulse play liuely in my vaines,
My panting breath doth keepe a meaner time,
My q…au'ring artires be the tenours straines,
My trembling sinewes serue the counterchime,
My hollow sighs the deepest b…se doe beare,
True diapason in distincted sound;
My panting hart the trebble makes the aire,
And desken…s fineli… on the musikes ground;
Thus like a Luteor Viall did I he,
Whilst he prowd slaue dauncde galliards in her eie.
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Drayton, Michael. “To Harmonie. Sonnet. 6 (Sonnet 6).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/drayton/5/.
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Drayton, Michael. “To Harmonie. Sonnet. 6 (Sonnet 6).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/drayton/5/.
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