Love

The Silk-Worme of Love

by William Drummond of Hawthornden 1585–1649

Love

A Daedale of my Death
Now I resemble that slie worme on Earth▪
Which prone to its own harme doth take no rest:
For Day and Night opprest,
I feed on fading Leaves
Of Hope which me deceives,
And thousand Webs do warpe within my Brest,
And thus in end unto my selfe I weave
A fast-shut Prison, or a closer Grave.

MLA

Drummond, William, of Hawthornden. “The Silk-Worme of Love.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/drummond/103/.

Chicago

Drummond, William, of Hawthornden. “The Silk-Worme of Love.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/drummond/103/.

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