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Amour 41

By Michael Drayton

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Rare of-spring of my thoughts, my dearest Loue,     Begot by fancy on sweet hope exhortiue,     In whom all purenes with perfection stroue,     Hurt in the Embryon makes my ioyes abhortiue.     And you, my sighes, Symtomas of my woe,     The dolefull Anthems of my endelesse care,     Lyke idle Ecchoes euer answering; so,     The mournfull accents of my loues dispayre.     And thou, Conceite, the shadow of my blisse,     Declyning with the setting of my sunne,     Springing with that, and fading straight with this,     Now hast thou end, and now thou wast begun:         Now was thy pryme, and loe! is now thy waine;         Now wast thou borne, now in thy cradle slayne.

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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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