Shakespeare at Petrarch, Sidney and Browning

The councils of elders have drawn forth the course.
 sonnets of the ages spoken its worth
for war, for treason, for mutiny, worth
Love without consent verboten to worse

In times when Love had power to yield
to err or to gather without wielding
too much of force and so much of violence
whereas Love was a measure of doe eyed plight

cast over oceans fit to be addled 
by none. Nor drenched of its promise of  heart
where the streams of pliant shadows blurt
festive and parading lambs wool alert

Love has at once disaster foreseen since
Love without license is Loveless instance