Love
Sonnet 57 (Sonnet 57)
From Idea
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.
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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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