| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Idea | | Sonnet 11. You’re not alone when You are still alone | | Michael Drayton (1563–1631) |
| | [First printed in 1599 (No. 12), and in all later editions.] |
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YOU’RE not alone when You are still alone, | |
| O God! from You that I could private be! | |
| Since You one were, I never since was one; | |
| Since You in Me, my self since out of Me. | |
| Transported from my Self into your Being, | 5 |
| Though either distant, present yet to either: | |
| Senselessly with too much joy, each other seeing; | |
| And only absent, when We are together. | |
| Give me my self! and take your self again! | |
| Devise some means but how I may forsake You! | 10 |
| So much is mine that doth with You remain, | |
| That taking what is mine, with me I take You! | |
| You do bewitch Me! O that I could fly | |
| From my self You, or from your own self I! | | | |
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