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Amour 34

By Michael Drayton

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My fayre, looke from those turrets of thine eyes,     Into the Ocean of a troubled minde,     Where my poor soule, the Barke of sorrow, lyes,     Left to the mercy of the waues and winde.     See where she flotes, laden with purest loue,     Which those fayre Ilands of thy lookes affoord,     Desiring yet a thousand deaths to proue,     Then so to cast her Ballase ouerboard.     See how her sayles be rent, her tacklings worne,     Her Cable broke, her surest Anchor lost:     Her Marryners doe leaue her all forlorne,     Yet how shee bends towards that blessed Coast!         Loe! where she drownes in stormes of thy displeasure,         Whose worthy prize should haue enricht thy treasure.

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About Michael Drayton

Michael Drayton (1563–1631) was an English poet whose "Poly-Olbion" (1612–1622) is a vast topographical poem describing the landscape and legends of England and Wales. His sonnet "Since there's no help" is among the finest of the Elizabethan era.

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