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Sonnets: Idea XLIV

By Michael Drayton

Topics: classic

Whilst thus my pen strives to eternise thee,     Age rules my lines with wrinkles in my face,     Where in the map of all my misery     Is modelled out the world of my disgrace;         Whilst in despite of tyrannising times,     Medea-like, I make thee young again,     Proudly thou scorn'st my world-outwearing rhymes,     And murther'st virtue with thy coy disdain;         And though in youth my youth untimely perish,     To keep thee from oblivion and the grave,     Ensuing ages yet my rhymes shall cherish,     Where I intombed my better part shall save;         And though this earthly body fade and die,         My name shall mount upon eternity.

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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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