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Ideas Mirrour, Amour 48
From Ideas Mirrour (1594)
Who list to praise the dayes delicious lyght,
Let him compare it to her heauenly eye,
The sun-beames to the lustre of her sight;
So may the learned like the similie.
The mornings Crimson to her lyps alike,
The sweet of Eden to her breathes perfume,
The fayre Elizia to her fayrer cheeke,
Vnto her veynes the onely Phoenix plume.
The Angels tresses to her tressed hayre,
The Galixia to her more then white.
Praysing the fayrest, compare it to my faire,
Still naming her in naming all delight.
So may he grace all these in her alone,
Superlatiue in all comparison.
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Drayton, Michael. “Ideas Mirrour, Amour 48.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/drayton/95/.
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Drayton, Michael. “Ideas Mirrour, Amour 48.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/drayton/95/.
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