| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Idea | | Sonnet 33. Whilst yet mine Eyes do surfeit with delight | | Michael Drayton (1563–1631) |
| | [First printed in 1594 (No, 33), and in all later editions.]
To Imagination |
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WHILST yet mine Eyes do surfeit with delight, | |
| My woful Heart (imprisoned in my breast) | |
| Wisheth to be transformèd to my sight, | |
| That it, like those, by looking, might be blest. | |
| But whilst mine Eyes thus greedily do gaze, | 5 |
| Finding their objects over-soon depart; | |
| These now the other’s happiness do praise, | |
| Wishing themselves, that they had been my Heart. | |
| That Eyes were Heart, or that the Heart were Eyes, | |
| As covetous the other’s use to have. | 10 |
| But finding Nature, their request denies, | |
| This to each other mutually they crave. | |
| That since the one cannot the other be, | |
| That Eyes could think of that my Heart could see. | | | |
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