Love

Ideas Mirrour, Amour 32

by Michael Drayton 1563–1631

From Ideas Mirrour (1594)

Love

Those teares, which quench my hope, still kindle my desire,
Those sighes, which coole my hart, are coles vnto my loue,
Disdayne, Ice to my life, is to my soule a fire:
With teares, sighes, and disdaine, this contrary I proue.
Quenchles desire makes hope burne, dryes my teares,
Loue heats my hart, my hart-heat my sighes warmeth;
With my soules fire my life disdaine out-weares,
Desire, my loue, my soule, my hope, hart, and life charmeth.
My hope becomes a friend to my desire,
My hart imbraceth Loue, Loue doth imbrace my hart;
My life a Phoenix is in my soules fire,
From thence (they vow) they neuer will depart.
Desire, my loue, my soule, my hope, my hart, my life,
With teares, sighes, and disdaine, shall haue immortal strife.

MLA

Drayton, Michael. “Ideas Mirrour, Amour 32.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/drayton/83/.

Chicago

Drayton, Michael. “Ideas Mirrour, Amour 32.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/drayton/83/.

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