| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Sonnets after Astrophel, etc. | | Sonnet XII. The tablet of my heavy fortunes here | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | [Not reprinted in Delia, Daniel’s authorised collection, 1592–4.] |
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THE TABLET of my heavy fortunes here | |
| Upon thine altar, Paphian Power! I place. | |
| The grievous shipwrack of my travels dear | |
| In bulged bark, all perished in disgrace. | |
| That traitor LOVE! was pilot to my woe; | 5 |
| My sails were Hope, spread with my Sighs of Grief; | |
| The twin lights which my hapless course did show | |
| Hard by th’inconstant sands of false relief, | |
| Were two bright stars which led my view apart. | |
| A SIREN’s voice allured me come so near | 10 |
| To perish on the marble of her heart: | |
| A danger which my soul did never fear. | |
| Lo, thus he fares that trusts a calm too much | |
| And thus fare I whose credit hath been such. | | | |
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