| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part I. | | XXVI. When you appear, appears the Break of Day | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | WHEN you appear, appears the Break of Day; | |
| And shews to be most fair and passing bright: | |
| But if you keep yourself unseen away, | |
| The Day shows not; but keepeth out of sight. | |
| Then if again you ’gin yourself to show; | 5 |
| Behold the Day to shew itself afresh | |
| With sky most clear. So both of you do grow | |
| In beauty like: in heat nor are you less. | |
| Thus if your beams you ope, or hidden been: | |
| The Break of Day appears; else ne’er is seen. | 10 | | | |
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