| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Idea | | Sonnet 1. Like an adventurous seafarer am I | | Michael Drayton (1563–1631) |
| | [First printed in 1619.]
LIKE an adventurous seafarer am I, | |
| Who hath some long and dangerous voyage been; | |
| And called to tell of his discovery, | |
| How far he sailed, what countries he had seen; | |
| Proceeding from the port whence he put forth, | 5 |
| Shews by his compass how his course he steered, | |
| When East, when West, when South, and when by North, | |
| As how the Pole, to every place was reared; | |
| What capes he doubled, of what continent, | |
| The gulfs and straits that strangely he had past; | 10 |
| Where most becalmed, where with foul weather spent, | |
| And on what rocks in peril to be cast: | |
| Thus in my Love, Time calls me to relate | |
| My tedious travels, and oft-varying fate. | | | | |
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