| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | The Tears of Fancie | | Sonnet XXII. I saw the obiect of my pining thought | | Thomas Watson (1555–1592) |
| | | I SAW the obiect of my pining thought, | |
| VVithin a garden of sweete natures placing: | |
| VVhere in an arbour artificiall wrought, | |
| By workemans wondrous skill the garden gracing. | |
| Did boast his glorie, glorie farre renowned, | 5 |
| For in his shadie boughs my Mistres slept: | |
| And with a garland of his branches crowned, | |
| Her daintie forehead from the sunne ykept. | |
| Imperious loue vpon her eielids tending, | |
| Playing his wanton sports at euery becke, | 10 |
| And into euerie finest limbe descending, | |
| From eies to lips from lips to yuorie necke. | |
| And euerie limbe supplide and t’euerie part, | |
| Had free accesse but durst not touch her hart. | | | | |
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