| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Sonnets after Astrophel, etc. | | Sonnet I. If so it hap the offspring of my care | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | | IF so it hap the offspring of my care, | |
| These fatal anthems and afflicted songs, | |
| Come to their view, who like to me do fare; | |
| May move them sigh thereat, and moan my wrongs. | |
| But untouched hearts! with unaffected eye, | 5 |
| Approach not to behold my soul’s distress! | |
| Clearsighted, you will note what is awry, | |
| Whilst blind ones see no error in my verse. | |
| You blinded souls! whom hap and error lead. | |
| You outcast eaglets dazzled with the sun! | 10 |
| Ah you, and none but you, my sorrow read! | |
| You best can judge the wrong that she hath done: | |
| That she hath done, the motive of my pain; | |
| Who whilst I love, doth kill me with disdain. | | | | |
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