Amour 29
O eyes! behold your happy Hesperus,That luckie Load-starre of eternall light,Left as that sunne alone to comfort vs,When our worlds sunne is vanisht out of sight.O starre of starres! fayre Planet mildly moouing,O Lampe of vertue! sun-bright, euer shyning,O mine eyes Comet! so admyr'd by louing,O cleerest day-starre! neuer more declyning.O our worlds wonder! crowne of heauen aboue,Thrice happy be those eyes which may behold thee!Lou'd more then life, yet onely art his loueWhose glorious hand immortal hath enrold thee!O blessed fayre! now vaile those heauenly eyes,That I may blesse mee at thy sweet arise.
Words in this poem
- hesperus n.
- Venus when she is the evening star; Hesper. [L. See Hesper.]
- starre n.
- One of the innumerable luminous bodies seen in the heavens; any heavenly body other than the sun, moon, comets, and nebulæ. [OE. sterre, AS. steorra; akin to OFries. stera, OS. sterro, D. ster, OHG. sterno, sterro, G. stern, Icel. stjarna, Sw. stjerna, Dan. stierne, Goth. staírno, Arm]
- eternall a.
- Without beginning or end of existence; always existing. [F. éternel, L. aeternalis, fr. aeternus. See Etern.]
- glorious a.
- Exhibiting attributes, qualities, or acts that are worthy of or receive glory; noble; praiseworthy; excellent; splendid; illustrious; inspiring admiration; as, glorious deeds. [OF. glorios, glorious, F. glorieux, fr. L. gloriosus. See Glory, n.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Amour 29 is in the public domain. This text is taken from Minor Poems of Michael Drayton, Project Gutenberg ebook #17873; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Michael Drayton, Amour 29, in Minor Poems (1594–1619), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #17873, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/drayton-minor-poems/amour-29.html, id L20570.
Form and metre
Amour 29 is 14 lines in a single stanza. The metre is iambic pentameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 85%).
See other poems in iambic pentameter.
Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
Rhyme words, stanza by stanza
The word that ends each line, lettered by the rhyme it makes; a dash is a line whose rhyme the dictionary could not confirm.
- 1 -A-ABCBCDEDEFF hesperus · lightA · — · sightA · moouingB · shyningC · louingB · declyningC · aboueD · theeE · loueD · theeE · eyesF · ariseF
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. Read against iambic pentameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| O eyes! behold your happy Hesperus, | 10 | ··˘/·/˘/˘˘ |
| That luckie Load-starre of eternall light, | 10 | ·/˘···˘/˘· |
| Left as that sunne alone to comfort vs, | 11 | ····˘/·/˘/˘ |
| When our worlds sunne is vanisht out of sight. | 10 | ·/········ |
| O starre of starres! fayre Planet mildly moouing, | 10 | ·····/˘/˘· |
| O Lampe of vertue! sun-bright, euer shyning, | 9 | ·······/˘ |
| O mine eyes Comet! so admyr'd by louing, | 10 | ···/˘····· |
| O cleerest day-starre! neuer more declyning. | 11 | ·/˘··/˘···· |
| O our worlds wonder! crowne of heauen aboue, | 10 | ·/˘·/˘···· |
| Thrice happy be those eyes which may behold thee! | 11 | ·/˘·····˘/· |
| Lou'd more then life, yet onely art his loue | 10 | ·····/˘··· |
| Whose glorious hand immortal hath enrold thee! | 11 | ·/˘·˘/˘···· |
| O blessed fayre! now vaile those heauenly eyes, | 10 | ··˘······· |
| That I may blesse mee at thy sweet arise. | 10 | ········˘/ |
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