Mary Wroth

Sonnet 34 - Take heed mine eyes

Take heed mine eyes, how you your looks do cast

Lest they betray my heart's most secret thought;

Be true unto your selves for nothing's bought

More dear than doubt which brings a lover's fast.

 

Catch you all watching eyes, ere they be past,

Or take yours fixed where your best love hath sought

The pride of your desires; let them be taught

Their faults with shame, they could no truer last.

 

Then look, and look with joy for conquest won

Of those that searched your hurt in double kind;

So you kept safe, let them themselves look blind

Watch, gaze, and mark till they to madness run,

 

While you, my eyes enjoy full sight of love

Contented that such happinesses move.