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Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.

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Sonnet 34. Marvel not, Love! though I thy power admire!

Michael Drayton (1563–1631)

[First printed in 1599 (No. 34), and in all later editions.]

To Admiration

MARVEL not, LOVE! though I thy power admire!

Ravished a world beyond the farthest thought,

And knowing more, than ever hath been taught,

That I am only starved in my Desire:

Marvel not, LOVE! though I thy power admire!

Aiming at things exceeding all perfection;

To Wisdom’s self to minister direction,

That I am only starved in my Desire:

Marvel not, LOVE! though I thy power admire!

Though my Conceit I further seem to bend

Than possibly Invention can extend;

And yet am only starved in my Desire:

If thou wilt wonder! here ’s the wonder, LOVE!

That this to me doth yet no wonder prove.