Love

Ideas Mirrour, Amour 40

by Michael Drayton 1563–1631

From Ideas Mirrour (1594)

Love

O thou vnkindest fayre! most fayrest shee,
In thine eyes tryumph murthering my poore hart,
Now doe I sweare by heauens, before we part,
My halfe-slaine hart shall take reuenge on thee.
Thy mother dyd her lyfe to death resigne,
And thou an Angell art, and from aboue;
Thy father was a man, that will I proue,
Yet thou a Goddesse art, and so diuine.
And thus, if thou be not of humaine kinde,
A Bastard on both sides needes must thou be;
Our Lawes allow no land to basterdy:
By natures Lawes we thee a bastard finde.
Then hence to heauen, vnkind, for thy childs part:
Goe bastard goe, for sure of thence thou art.

MLA

Drayton, Michael. “Ideas Mirrour, Amour 40.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/drayton/89/.

Chicago

Drayton, Michael. “Ideas Mirrour, Amour 40.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/drayton/89/.

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