| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | The Tears of Fancie | | Sonnet XXVII. The banke whereon I leand my restles head | | Thomas Watson (1555–1592) |
| | | THE BANKE whereon I leand my restles head, | |
| Placd at the bottome of a mirtle tree: | |
| I oft had watered with the teares I shed, | |
| Sad teares did with the fallen earth agree. | |
| Since when the flocks that grase vpon the plaine, | 5 |
| Doe in their kind lament my woes though dumbe: | |
| And euery one as faithfull doth refraine | |
| To eate that grasse which sacred is become. | |
| And euerie tree forbeareth to let fall, | |
| Their dewie drops mongst any brinish teares: | 10 |
| Onelie the mirth 1 whose hart as mine is thrall, | |
| To melt in sorrowes sourse no whit forbeare. | |
| So franticke loue with griefe our paind harts wringing, | |
| That still we wept and still the grasse was springing. | |
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