| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Sonnets after Astrophel, etc. | | Sonnet XXVII. Raising my hope on hills of high desire | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | | RAISING my hope on hills of high desire, | |
| Thinking to scale the heaven of her heart; | |
| My slender mean presumes too high a part: | |
| For DISDAIN’s thunderbolt made me retire, | |
| And threw me down to pain in all this fire. | 5 |
| Where lo, I languish in so heavy smart | |
| Because th’attempt was far above my art: | |
| Her state brooks not poor souls should come so nigh her. | |
| Yet I protest my high aspiring will | |
| Was not to dispossess her of her right: | 10 |
| Her sovereignty should have remainèd still, | |
| I only sought the bliss to have her sight. | |
| Her sight contented thus to see me spill, | |
Framed my desires fit for her eyes to kill.
F I N I S. [SAMUEL] DANIEL. | | | | |
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