| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Idea | | Sonnet 35. Some misbelieving and profane in Love | | Michael Drayton (1563–1631) |
| | [First printed in 1594 (No. 12), and in all later editions.]
To Miracle |
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SOME misbelieving and profane in Love, | |
| When I do speak of miracles by thee, | |
| May say, that thou art flatterèd by me; | |
| Who only write, my skill in Verse to prove. | |
| See miracles! ye Unbelieving, see! | 5 |
| A dumb-born Muse made to express the mind! | |
| A cripple Hand to write, yet lame by kind! | |
| One by thy name, the other touching thee. | |
| Blind were mine eyes, till they were seen of thine; | |
| And mine ears deaf, by thy fame healèd be: | 10 |
| My vices cured by virtues sprung from thee; | |
| My hopes revived, which long in grave had lien. | |
| All unclean thoughts (foul spirits) cast out in me, | |
| Only by virtue that proceeds from thee. | | | |
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