| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | I Saw the Object | | By Thomas Watson (1555–1592) |
| | | I SAW the object of my pining thought | |
| Within a garden of sweet Nature’s placing: | |
| Wherein an arbour artificial wrought, | |
| By workman’s wondrous skill the garden gracing, | |
| Did boast his glory, glory far renownèd, | 5 |
| For in his shady boughs my mistress slept: | |
| And with a garland of his branches crownèd, | |
| Her dainty forehead from the sun ykept. | |
| Imperious love upon her eyelids tending, | |
| Playing his wanton sports at every beck, | 10 |
| And into every finest limb descending, | |
| From eyes to lips, from lips to ivory neck; | |
| And every limb supplied, and t’every part | |
| Had free accèss, but durst not touch her heart. | | | | |
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