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Michael Drayton - Sonnet LVI: When Like an EagletMichael Drayton - Sonnet LVI: When Like an Eaglet
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When like an eaglet I first found my Love, For that the virtue I thereof would know, Upon the nest I set it forth to prove If it were of that kingly kind or no; But it no sooner say my Sun appear, But on her rays with open eyes it stood, To show that I had hatch`d it for the air And rightly came from that brave mounting brood; And, when the plumes were summ`d with sweet desire, To prove the pinions it ascends the skies; Do what I could, it needsly would aspire To my Soul`s Sun, those two celestial eyes. Thus from my breast, where it was bred alone, It after thee is, like an eaglet, flown.
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