Love
Ideas Mirrour, Amour 1
From Ideas Mirrour (1594)
Reade heere (sweet Mayd) the story of my wo,
The drery abstracts of my endles cares,
With my liues sorow enterlyned so;
Smok'd with my sighes, and blotted with my teares:
The sad memorials of my miseries,
Pend in the griefe of myne afflicted ghost;
My liues complaint in doleful Elegies,
With so pure loue as tyme could neuer boast.
Receaue the incense which I offer heere,
By my strong fayth ascending to thy fame,
My zeale, my hope, my vowes, my praise, my prayer,
My soules oblation to thy sacred name:
Which name my Muse to highest heauen shal raise
By chast desire, true loue, and vertues praise.
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Drayton, Michael. “Ideas Mirrour, Amour 1.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/drayton/68/.
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Drayton, Michael. “Ideas Mirrour, Amour 1.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/drayton/68/.
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