Love
Ideas Mirrour, Amour 42
From Ideas Mirrour (1594)
Plac'd in the forlorne hope of all dispayre
Against the Forte where Beauties Army lies,
Assayld with death, yet armed with gastly feare,
Loe! thus my loue, my lyfe, my fortune tryes.
Wounded with Arrowes from thy lightning eyes,
My tongue in payne my harts counsels bewraying,
My rebell thought for me in Ambushe lyes,
To my lyues foe her Chieftaine still betraying.
Record my loue in Ocean waues (vnkind)
Cast my desarts into the open ayre,
Commit my words vnto the fleeting wind,
Cancell my name, and blot it with dispayre;
So shall I bee as I had neuer beene,
Nor my disgraces to the world be seene.
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MLA
Drayton, Michael. “Ideas Mirrour, Amour 42.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/drayton/91/.
Chicago
Drayton, Michael. “Ideas Mirrour, Amour 42.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/drayton/91/.
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