Love

Ideas Mirrour, Amour 15

by Michael Drayton 1563–1631

From Ideas Mirrour (1594)

Love

Now, Loue, if thou wilt proue a Conqueror,
Subdue thys Tyrant euer martyring mee;
And but appoint me for her Tormentor,
Then for a Monarch will I honour thee.
My hart shall be the prison for my fayre;
Ile fetter her in chaines of purest loue,
My sighs shall stop the passage of the ayre:
This punishment the pittilesse may moue.
With teares out of the Channels of mine eyes
She'st quench her thirst as duly as they fall:
Kinde words vnkindest meate I can deuise,
My sweet, my faire, my good, my best of all.
Ile binde her then with my torne-tressed haire,
And racke her with a thousand holy wishes;

MLA

Drayton, Michael. “Ideas Mirrour, Amour 15.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/drayton/74/.

Chicago

Drayton, Michael. “Ideas Mirrour, Amour 15.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/drayton/74/.

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