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