Love

Ideas Mirrour, Amour 27

by Michael Drayton 1563–1631

From Ideas Mirrour (1594)

Love

My Loue makes hote the fire whose heat is spent,
The water moisture from my teares deriueth,
And my strong sighes the ayres weake force reuiueth:
Thus loue, tears, sighes, maintaine each one his element.
The fire, vnto my loue, compare a painted fire,
The water, to my teares as drops to Oceans be,
The ayre, vnto my sighes as Eagle to the flie,
The passions of dispaire but ioyes to my desire.
Onely my loue is in the fire ingraued,
Onely my teares by Oceans may be gessed,
Onely my sighes are by the ayre expressed;
Yet fire, water, ayre, of nature not depriued.
Whilst fire, water, ayre, twixt heauen and earth shal be,
My loue, my teares, my sighes, extinguisht cannot be.

MLA

Drayton, Michael. “Ideas Mirrour, Amour 27.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/drayton/80/.

Chicago

Drayton, Michael. “Ideas Mirrour, Amour 27.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/drayton/80/.

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