Poem by Michael Drayton

Sonnet 36. Thou Purblind Boy

    Cupid Conjured

Thou purblind boy, since thou hast been so slack
To wound her heart, whose eyes have wounded me,
And suffer'd her to glory in my wrack,
Thus to my aid I lastly conjure thee:
By hellish Styx, by which the Thund'rer swears,
By thy fair mother's unavoided power,
By Hecate's names, by Proserpine's sad tears
When she was rapt to the infernal bower,
By thine own loved Psyche, by the fires
Spent on thine alters flaming up to heav'n,
By all true lovers' sighs, vows, and desires,
By all the wounds that ever thou hast giv'n:
    I conjure thee by all that I have nam'd 
    To make her love, or, Cupid, be thou damn'd.

1. Sonnet 23. Love, Banish'd Heav'n
2. Sonnet 45. Muses, which Sadly Sit about My Chair
3. Sonnet 16. Mongst all the Creatures in this Spacious Round
4. Sonnet 42. Some Men there Be which like My Method Well
5. Sonnet 48. Cupid, I Hate thee

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