| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Idea | | Sonnet 55. My Fair! if thou wilt register my Love | | Michael Drayton (1563–1631) |
| | [First printed in 1599 (No. 50), and in all later editions.] |
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MY Fair! if thou wilt register my Love, | |
| A world of volumes shall thereof arise! | |
| Preserve my Tears, and thou thyself shall prove | |
| A second Flood, down raining from mine eyes! | |
| Note but my Sighs, and thine eyes shall behold | 5 |
| The sunbeams smothered with immortal smoke! | |
| And if by thee, my Prayers may be enrolled; | |
| They, heaven and earth to pity shall provoke! | |
| Look thou into my breast, and thou shalt see | |
| Chaste holy vows for my soul’s sacrifice! | 10 |
| That soul, sweet Maid! which so hath honoured thee, | |
| Erecting Trophies to thy sacred eyes. | |
| Those eyes to my heart shining ever bright, | |
| When darkness hath obscured each other light. | | | |
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