| Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867. | | | | I. Description of Spring and Summer | | By Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517–1547) |
| | Wherein everything renews, save only the Lover
THE SOOTE 1 season that bud and bloom forth brings | |
| With green hath clad the hill, and eke the vale; | |
| The nightingale, with feathers new, she sings; | |
| The turtle to her make 2 hath told her tale; | |
| Summer is come, for every spray now springs; | 5 |
| The hart hath hung his old head on the pale; | |
| The buck in brake his winter coat he flings; | |
| The fishes flete 3 with new repairéd scale; | |
| The adder all her slough away she slings; 4 | |
| The swift swallow pursueth the flies smale; 5 | 10 |
| The busy bee her honey now she mings; 6 | |
| Winter is worn, that was the flowers’ bale; | |
| And thus I see, among these pleasant things, | |
| Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs. | |
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