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| Picture |
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| I fixe mine eye on thine and there [276] |
| Pitty my picture, burning in thine eye. |
| My Picture drownd in a transparent Teare, |
| When I looke lower, I espy. |
| Hadst thou the wicked skill |
| By pictures made and marrd to kill |
| How many wayes mightst thou performe thy will? |
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| But now I haue drunke thy sweetest Teares |
| And though thou powre more, Ile depart, |
| My picture vanished, vanish all feares |
| That I can bee indam̄aged by thy Art |
| Though thou retayne of mee |
| One Picture more: Yet that will bee |
| (Beeing in thine owne heart) from malice free |
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| [aTranscriptions are not provided for noncanonical poems, elegies on Donne by other authors, or prose compositions.] |