Love

Ideas Mirrour, Amour 30

by Michael Drayton 1563–1631

From Ideas Mirrour (1594)

Love

Three sorts of serpents doe resemble thee;
That daungerous eye-killing Cockatrice,
Th' inchaunting Syren, which doth so entice,
The weeping Crocodile; these vile pernicious three.
The Basiliske his nature takes from thee,
Who for my life in secret wait do'st lye,
And to my heart send'st poyson from thine eye:
Thus do I feele the paine, the cause yet cannot see.
Faire-mayd no more, but Mayr-maid be thy name,
Who with thy sweet aluring harmony
Hast playd the thiefe, and stolne my hart from me,
And, like a Tyrant, mak'st my griefe thy game.
The Crocodile, who, when thou hast me slaine,
Lament'st my death with teares of thy disdaine.

MLA

Drayton, Michael. “Ideas Mirrour, Amour 30.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/drayton/82/.

Chicago

Drayton, Michael. “Ideas Mirrour, Amour 30.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/drayton/82/.

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