Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IDEA: 60, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Define my weal, and tell the joys of heav'n Last Line: Can show a second to so pure a love. | ||||||||
Define my weal, and tell the joys of Heav'n; Express my woes, and show the pains of Hell; Declare what fate unlucky stars have giv'n, And ask a world upon my life to dwell; Make known the faith that Fortune could not move; Compare myu worth with others' base desert; Let virtue be the touchstone of my love, So may the heav'ns read wonders in my heart; Behold the clouds which have eclips'd my sun, And view the crosses which my course do let; Tell me if ever since the world begun So fair a rising had so foul a set, And see if Time (if he would strive to prove) Can show a second to so pure a love. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IDEA: 14. TO TIME by MICHAEL DRAYTON IDEA: TO THE READER OF THESE SONNETS, INTRODUCTION by MICHAEL DRAYTON TO THE VIRGINIAN VOYAGE [1611] by MICHAEL DRAYTON A HYMNE TO HIS LADIES BIRTH-PLACE by MICHAEL DRAYTON A SKELTONIAD by MICHAEL DRAYTON AN AMOURET ANACREONTICK by MICHAEL DRAYTON AN ELEGIE UPON THE DEATH OF THE LADY PENELOPE CLIFTON by MICHAEL DRAYTON |
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