| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Sonnets after Astrophel, etc. | | Sonnet XX. If Beauty bright be doubled with a frown | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | | IF BEAUTY bright be doubled with a frown, | |
| That PITY cannot shine through to my bliss; | |
| And DISDAIN’s vapours are thus overgrown, | |
| That my life’s light to me quite darkened is. | |
| Why trouble I the world then with my cries, | 5 |
| The air with sighs, the earth below with tears? | |
| Since I live hateful to those ruthful eyes; | |
| Vexing with my untuned moan, her dainty ears. | |
| If I have loved her dearer than my breath, | |
| (My breath that calls the heaven to witness it) | 10 |
| And still hold her most dear until my death; | |
| And if that all this cannot move one whit: | |
| Yet let her say that she hath done me wrong, | |
| To use me thus and know I loved so long. | | | | |
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