| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | The Tears of Fancie | | Sonnet V. Hopeles and helpeles too, poore loue amated | | Thomas Watson (1555–1592) |
| | | HOPELES and helpeles too, poore loue amated, | |
| To see himselfe affronted with disdaine: | |
| And all his skill and power spent in vaine, | |
| At me the onely obiect that he hated. | |
| Now Cytherea from Olimpus mount, | 5 |
| Descending from the sphere with her deere sonne: | |
| VVith Douelike wings to Alcidalyon, | |
| Loue on her knee, shee by the Christall fount; | |
| Aduisde the boy what scandall it would bee, | |
| If Fame should to the open world discouer | 10 |
| How I suruiu’d and scornd Loues sacred power. | |
| Then Cupid lightly leaping from her knee, | |
| Vnto his mother vowd my discontenting: | |
| Vnhappie vowe the ground of my lamenting. | | | | |
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