| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Idea | | Sonnet 34. Marvel not, Love! though I thy power admire! | | Michael Drayton (1563–1631) |
| | [First printed in 1599 (No. 34), and in all later editions.]
To Admiration |
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MARVEL not, LOVE! though I thy power admire! | |
| Ravished a world beyond the farthest thought, | |
| And knowing more, than ever hath been taught, | |
| That I am only starved in my Desire: | |
| Marvel not, LOVE! though I thy power admire! | 5 |
| Aiming at things exceeding all perfection; | |
| To Wisdom’s self to minister direction, | |
| That I am only starved in my Desire: | |
| Marvel not, LOVE! though I thy power admire! | |
| Though my Conceit I further seem to bend | 10 |
| Than possibly Invention can extend; | |
| And yet am only starved in my Desire: | |
| If thou wilt wonder! here ’s the wonder, LOVE! | |
| That this to me doth yet no wonder prove. | | | |
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