| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | Sonet: ‘Fra bank to bank, fra wood to wood I rin’ | | By Mark Alexander Boyd (1562–1601) |
| | | FRA bank to bank, fra wood to wood I rin, 1 | |
| Ourhailit 2 with my feeble fantasie; | |
| Like til a leaf that fallis from a tree, | |
| Or til a reed ourblawin with the win. | |
| Twa gods guides me: the ane of tham is blin, | 5 |
| Yea and a bairn brocht up in vanitie; | |
| The next a wife ingenrit 3 of the sea, | |
| And lichter nor a dauphin 4 with her fin. | |
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| Unhappy is the man for evermair | |
| That tills the sand and sawis in the air; | 10 |
| But twice unhappier is he, I lairn, | |
| That feidis 5 in his hairt a mad desire, | |
| And follows on a woman throw 6 the fire, | |
| Led by a blind and teachit by a bairn. | |
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