Poems by Michael Drayton
Sonnet XXVII: Is Not Love Here
... Or have our passions lesser power than theirs, ...
Sonnet XVII: Stay, Speedy Time
... To TimeStay, speedy Time, behold, before thou pass, ...
Sonnet XXXVII: Dear, Why Should You
... Which through the day disjoin by sev'ral flight, ...
Sonnet III: Taking My Pen
... That all their wealth lies in thy beauty's books, ...
Sonnet LIX: As Love and I
... "You have spun a fair thread," he replies in scorn ...
Sonnet XXII: Love, Banish'd Heav'n
... Well, well, my friends, when beggars grow thus bold, ...
Sonnet XIII: Letters and Lines
... To the ShadowLetters and lines we see are soon defac'd, ...
Sonnet XXIX: When Conquering Love
... To the SensesWhen conquering Love did first my Heart assail, ...
Endimion and Phoebe (excerpts)
... For this boy's love, the water-nymphs have wept, ...
Sonnet XVIII: To This Our World
... To the Celestial NumbersTo this our world, to Learning, and to Heav'n, ...
Sonnet L: As in Some Countries
... Then staunch the bleeding, then trasnpierce the corse, ...
Sonnet LI: Calling to Mind
... Though Heav'n and Earth prove both to me untrue, ...
Sonnet LX: Define My Weal
... Make known the faith that Fortune could not move ...
Sonnet XLII: Some Men There Be
... And in bare words paint out my passion's pain ...
Sonnet XXXII: Our Flood's-Queen Thames
... Our flood's-queen Thames for ships and swans is crown'd, ...
