Is not Love here as 'tis in other climes, <br />And differeth it, as do the several nations? <br />Or hath it lost the virtue with the times, <br />Or in this island altereth with the fashions? <br />Or have our passions lesser power than theirs, <br />Who had less art them lively to express? <br />Is Nature grown less powerful in their heirs, <br />Or in our fathers did she more transgress? <br />I am sure my sighs come from a heart as true <br />As any man's that memory can boast, <br />And my respects and services to you <br />Equal with his that loves his mistress most. <br />Or nature must be partial to my cause, <br />Or only you do violate her laws.<br /><br />Michael Drayton<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-xxvii-is-not-love-here/
