| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Sonnets after Astrophel, etc. | | Sonnet XXIV. The star of my mishap imposed my paining | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | | THE STAR of my mishap imposed my paining | |
| To spend the April of my years in crying; | |
| That never found my fortune but in waining, | |
| With still fresh cares my blood and body trying. | |
| Yet her I blame not, though she might have blest me; | 5 |
| But my DESIRE’s wings so high aspiring: | |
| Now melted with the sun that hath possest me | |
| Down do I fall from off my high desiring. | |
| And in my fall do cry for mercy speedy, | |
| No piteous eye looks back upon my mourning; | 10 |
| No help I find, when now most favour need I: | |
| My ocean tears drown me, and quench my burning. | |
| And this my death must christen her anew, | |
| Whiles faith doth bid my cruel Fair, “Adieu!” | | | | |
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