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Michael Drayton (Майкл Дрейтон)


Sonnet 20. An Evil Spirit


An evil spirit, your beauty haunts me still,
Wherewith, alas, I have been long possest,
Which ceaseth not to tempt me to each ill,
Nor gives me once but one poor minute's rest;
In me it speaks, whether I sleep or wake,
And when by means to drive it out I try,
With greater torments then it me doth take,
And tortures me in most extremity;
Before my face it lays down my despairs,
And hastes me on unto a sudden death,
Now tempting me to drown myself in tears,
And then in sighing to give up my breath.
    Thus am I still provok'd to every evil 
    By this good wicked spirit, sweet angel-devil.



Michael Drayton's other poems:
  1. Sonnet 37. Dear, why should You Command Me to My Rest
  2. Sonnet 57. You Best Discern'd of my Mind's Inward Eyes
  3. Sonnet 46. Plain-path'd Experience
  4. An Ode Written in the Peak
  5. Sonnet 19. You Cannot Love


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