| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Idea | | Sonnet 51. Calling to mind since first my Love begun | | Michael Drayton (1563–1631) |
| | [First printed in 1605 (No. 51), and in all later editions.] |
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CALLING to mind since first my Love begun, | |
| The uncertain Times, oft varying in their course; | |
| How things still unexpectedly have run, | |
| As it please the Fates, by their resistless force. | |
| Lastly, mine eyes amazèdly have seen | 5 |
| ESSEX’s great fall! TYRONE his peace to gain! | |
| The quiet end of that long living Queen! | |
| This King’s fair Entrance! and our peace with Spain! | |
| We and the Dutch at length ourselves to sever! | |
| Thus the World doth and evermore shall reel: | 10 |
| Yet to my goddess am I constant ever! | |
| Howe’er blind Fortune turn her giddy wheel, | |
| Though heaven and earth prove both to me untrue, | |
| Yet am I still inviolate to You! | | | |
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