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Born in 1563 / Died in December 23, 1631 / United Kingdom / English

Poems by Michael Drayton

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Sonnet XLIII: Why Should Your Fair Eyes

... Why should your fair eyes with such sovereign grace ...

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Sonnet XII: That Learned Father

... Conscientia - In right or wrong, they call her Conscience ...

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Sonnet LV: My Fair, If Thou Wilt

... That soul, sweet Maid, which so hath honor'd thee, ...

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Sonnet XXXVI: Thou Purblind Boy

... Cupid ConjuredThou purblind boy, since thou hast been so slack ...

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Sonnet LVIII: In Former Times

... For fear that some their treasure should purloin, ...

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Sonnet LVI: When Like an Eaglet

... And, when the plumes were summ'd with sweet desire, ...

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Sonnet XLV: Muses, Which Sadly Sit

... Whilst I, like Orpheus, sing to trees and stones, ...

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To His Valentine

... - "Let's laugh at them that choose ...

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To the Harp

... Such sounds yet forth it sent, ...

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Nymphidia, The Court Of Fairy

... The Queen, bound with love's powerful'st charm, ...

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"As Love and I, late harbour'd in one inn"

... Who spares to speak, doth spare to speed (quoth I), ...

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Idea XLIII: Why should your fair eyes with such sovereign grace

... Why should your fair eyes with such sovereign grace ...

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Idea XIV

...  Thus poor thieves suffer when the greater ‘scape ...

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Idea LXI

... Now, if thou wouldst, when all have given him over, ...

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A Roundelay between Two Shepherds

... 1 Shep. From whence come all these shepherd swains, ...