Love

Ideas Mirrour, Amour 35

by Michael Drayton 1563–1631

From Ideas Mirrour (1594)

Love

See, chaste Diana, where my harmles hart,
Rouz'd from my breast, his sure and safest layre,
Nor chaste by hound, nor forc'd by Hunters arte,
Yet see how right he comes vnto my fayre.
See how my Deere comes to thy Beauties stand,
And there stands gazing on those darting eyes,
Whilst from theyr rayes, by Cupids skilfull hand,
Into his hart the piercing Arrow flyes.
See how he lookes vpon his bleeding wound,
Whilst thus he panteth for his latest breath,
And, looking on thee, falls vpon the ground,
Smyling, as though he gloried in his death.
And wallowing in his blood, some lyfe yet laft;
His stone-cold lips doth kisse the blessed shaft.

MLA

Drayton, Michael. “Ideas Mirrour, Amour 35.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/drayton/85/.

Chicago

Drayton, Michael. “Ideas Mirrour, Amour 35.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/drayton/85/.

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