| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Sonnets after Astrophel, etc. | | Sonnet II. These sorrowing sighs, the smokes of mine annoy | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | | THESE sorrowing sighs, the smokes of mine annoy, | |
| These tears, which heat of sacred fire distils; | |
| These are the tributes that my faith doth pay; | |
| And these my tyrant’s cruel mind fulfil. | |
| I sacrifice my youth and blooming years | 5 |
| At her proud feet; that yet respects no whit | |
| My youth, untimely withered with my tears; | |
| By winter woes, for spring of youth unfit. | |
| She thinks a look may recompense my care, | |
| And so with looks prolongs my long lookt ease: | 10 |
| As short the bliss, so is the comfort rare; | |
| Yet must that bliss my hungry thoughts appease. | |
| Thus she returns my hopes to fruitless ever; | |
| Once let her love indeed or eye me never! | | | | |
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