| Samuel Waddington, comp. The Sonnets of Europe. 1888. | | | | Fair as the Day | | By August Graf von Platen-Hallermünde (1796–1835) |
| | Anonymous Translation
FAIR as the day that bodes as fair a morrow, | |
| With noble brow, with eyes in heaven’s dew, | |
| Of tender years, and charming as the new, | |
| So found I thee,—so found I, too, my sorrow. | |
| O, could I shelter in thy bosom borrow, | 5 |
| There most collected where the most unbent! | |
| O, would this coyness were already spent, | |
| That aye adjourns our union till to-morrow! | |
| But canst thou hate me? Art thou yet unshaken? | |
| Wherefore refusest thou the soft confession | 10 |
| To him who loves, yet feels himself forsaken? | |
| Oh, when thy future love doth make expression, | |
| An anxious rapture will the moment waken, | |
| As with a youthful prince at his accession. | | | | |
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