Poems: by Michaell Draiton Esquire

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Poems: by Michaell Draiton Esquire
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Drayton, Michael, 1563-1631.
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London :: Printed [by Valentine Simmes] for N. Ling,
1605.
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To Despaire. Sonnet 26.

I Euer loue, where neuer hope appeares, Yet hope drawes on my neuer-hoping care, And my lifes hope would die but for dispaire, My neuer-certaine ioy, breeds euer-certaine feares, Vncertaine-dread, giues wings vnto my hope, Yet my hopes wings are loaden so with feare, As they cannot ascend to my hopes spheare, Yet feare giues them more than a heauenly scope; Yet this large roome is bounded with dispaire, So my loue is still fettered with vaine hope, And libertie depriues him of his scope, And thus am I imprisond in the aire; Then sweet despaire, a while holde vp thy head, Or all my hope for sorrow will be dead.
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