Love
Fidessa: Sonnet 10
From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles, ed. M. F. Crow (1897)
Clip not, sweet love, the wings of my desire,
Although it soar aloft and mount too high:
But rather bear with me though I aspire,
For I have wings to bear me to the sky.
What though I mount, there is no sun but thee!
And sith no other sun, why should I fear?
Thou wilt not burn me, though thou terrify,
And though thy brightness do so great appear.
Dear, I seek not to batter down thy glory,
Nor do I envy that thy hope increaseth;
O never think thy fame doth make me sorry!
For thou must live by fame when beauty ceaseth.
Besides, since from one root we both did spring,
Why should not I thy fame and beauty sing?
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Griffin, Bartholomew. “Fidessa: Sonnet 10.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/griffin_b/9/.
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Griffin, Bartholomew. “Fidessa: Sonnet 10.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/griffin_b/9/.
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