| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Sonnets after Astrophel, etc. | | Sonnet XVIII. Look in my griefs! and blame me not to mourn | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | | LOOK in my griefs! and blame me not to mourn, | |
| From thought to thought that lead a life so bad: | |
| FORTUNE’s orphan! Her’s and the world’s scorn! | |
| Whose clouded brow doth make my days so bad. | |
| Long are their nights, whose cares do never sleep; | 5 |
| Loathsome their days, whom never sun yet joyed; | |
| A pleasing grief impressèd hath so deep, | |
| That thus I live both day and night annoyed. | |
| Yet since the sweetest root doth yield thus much, | |
| Her praise from my complaint I must not part: | 10 |
| I love the effect, because the cause is such; | |
| I praise her face, and blame her flinty heart. | |
| Whilst that we make the world admire at us; | |
| Her for disdain, and me for loving thus. | | | | |
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