| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Sonnets after Astrophel, etc. | | Sonnet XIV. If a true heart and faith unfeigned | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | | IF a true heart and faith unfeigned; | |
| If a sweet languish with a chaste desire; | |
| If hunger-starven thoughts so long retained, | |
| Fed but with smoke, and cherished but with fire; | |
| And if a brow with CARE’s characters painted; | 5 |
| Bewray my love, with broken words half spoken, | |
| To her which sits in my thoughts’ temple, sainted; | |
| And lay to view my vulture-gnawen heart open: | |
| If I have wept the day and sighed the night, | |
| While thrice the sun approached his northern bound; | 10 |
| If such a faith hath ever wrought aright, | |
| And well deserved, and yet no favour found. | |
| Let this suffice; the whole world it may see, | |
| The fault is hers, though mine the most hurt be. | | | | |
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