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Amour 43

By Michael Drayton

Topics: classic

Why doe I speake of ioy, or write of loue,     When my hart is the very Den of horror,     And in my soule the paynes of hell I proue,     With all his torments and infernall terror?     Myne eyes want teares thus to bewayle my woe,     My brayne is dry with weeping all too long;     My sighes be spent with griefe and sighing so,     And I want words for to expresse my wrong.     But still, distracted in loues lunacy,     And Bedlam like thus rauing in my griefe,     Now rayle vpon her hayre, now on her eye,     Now call her Goddesse, then I call her thiefe;         Now I deny her, then I doe confesse her,         Now I doe curse her, then againe I blesse her.

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Michael Drayton

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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