HumanitiesWeb.org - Editor's Selection of Poems (To Imagination) by Michael Drayton
HumanitiesWeb HumanitiesWeb
WelcomeHistoryLiteratureArtMusicPhilosophyResourcesHelp
Periods Alphabetically Nationality Topics Themes Genres Glossary
pixel

Drayton
Index
Selected Works
Quotations
Suggested Reading
Chronology
Related Materials

Search

Get Your Degree!

Find schools and get information on the program that’s right for you.

Powered by Campus Explorer

& etc
FEEDBACK

(C)1998-2012
All Rights Reserved.

Site last updated
28 October, 2012
Real Time Analytics

Editor's Selection of Poems
To Imagination

by Michael Drayton

Whilst yet mine Eyes do surfeit with delight, 
My woeful Heart, imprison'd in my breast, 
Wisheth to be transformed to my sight, 
That it, like these, by looking might be blest. 
But whilst my Eyes thus greedily do gaze, 
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; 
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, or that my Heart could see.
Previous Next
Personae

Terms Defined

Referenced Works