Love

Ideas Mirrour, Amour 38

by Michael Drayton 1563–1631

From Ideas Mirrour (1594)

Love

If chaste and pure deuotion of my youth,
Or glorie of my Aprill-springing yeeres,
Vnfained loue in naked simple truth,
A thousand vowes, a thousand sighes and teares;
Or if a world of faithful seruice done,
Words, thoughts, and deeds deuoted to her honor,
Or eyes that haue beheld her as theyr sunne,
With admiration euer looking on her:
A lyfe that neuer ioyd but in her loue,
A soule that euer hath ador'd her name,
A fayth that time nor fortune could not moue,
A Muse that vnto heauen hath raised her fame.
Though these, nor these deserue to be imbraced,
Yet, faire vnkinde, too good to be disgraced.

MLA

Drayton, Michael. “Ideas Mirrour, Amour 38.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/drayton/87/.

Chicago

Drayton, Michael. “Ideas Mirrour, Amour 38.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/drayton/87/.

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