Be thou then my beauty named, Since thy will is to be mine: For by that am I enflamed, Which on all alike doth shine. Others may the light admire, I onely truely feele the fire. But, if lofty titles move thee, Challenge then a Sov'raignes place: Say I honour when I love thee, Let me call thy kindnesse grace. State and Love things divers bee, Yet will we teach them to agree. Or, if this be not sufficing, Be thou stil'd my Goddesse then: I will love thee sacrificing, In thine honour Hymnes Ile pen. To be thine, what canst thou more? Ile love thee, serve thee, and adore. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FOREST MAID by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT ADVICE by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES THE TRAMPS by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE THE PHOENIX AND THE TURTLE by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE PSALM 86 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE CHRISTMAS EVE by MATHILDE BLIND DEAR MINNA by MAXWELL BODENHEIM |