Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | Idea | Sonnet 39. Some, when in rhyme, they of their loves do tell | Michael Drayton (15631631) |
| [First printed in 1594 (No. 18), and in all later editions.] |
| SOME, when in rhyme, they of their loves do tell; | |
With flames and lightnings their exordiums paint. | |
Some call on heaven, some invocate on hell, | |
And Fates and Furies, with their woes acquaint. | |
Elizium is too high a seat for me. | 5 |
I will not come in Styx or Phlegethon. | |
The thrice-three Muses but too wanton be. | |
Like they that lust, I care not, I will none! | |
Spiteful ERINNYS frights me with her looks, | |
My manhood dares not, with foul ATE mell. | 10 |
I quake to look on HECATEs charming books. | |
I still fear bugbears in APOLLOs cell. | |
I pass not for MINERVA! nor ASTREA! | |
Only I call on my divine IDEA! | | |
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