Mary Wroth

Sonnet 46 - Love

Love, thou hast all, for now thou hast me made

So thine, as if for thee I were ordained;

Then take thy conquest, nor let me be pained

More in thy sun, when I do seek thy shade,

 

No place for help have I left to invade,

That showed a face where least ease might be gained;

Yet found I pain increase, and but obtained

That this no way was to have love allayed,

 

When hot, and thirsty to a well I came

Trusting by that to quench part of my flame,

But there I was by Love afresh embraced;

 

Drink I could not, but in it I did see

Myself a living glass as well as she,

For Love to see himself in, truly placed.