Love

Sonnet 57 (Sonnet 57)

by Michael Drayton 1563–1631

From Idea

Love

YOu best discern'd of my interior eies,
And yet your graces outwardly diuine,
Whose deare remembrance in my bosome lies,
Too rich a relique for so poore a shrine:
You in whome Nature chose herselfe to view,
When she her owne perfection would admire,
Bestowing all her excellence on you;
At whose pure eies Loue lights his halowed fire,
Euen as a man that in some traunce hath seene,
More than his wondring vttrance can vnfolde,
That rapt in spirite in better worlds hath beene,
So must your praise distractedly be tolde;
Most of all short, when I should shew you most,
In your perfections altogether lost.

MLA

Drayton, Michael. “Sonnet 57 (Sonnet 57).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/drayton/56/.

Chicago

Drayton, Michael. “Sonnet 57 (Sonnet 57).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/drayton/56/.

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