| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | The Tears of Fancie | | Sonnet XXXVI. My waterie eies let fall no trickling teares | | Thomas Watson (1555–1592) |
| | | MY waterie eies let fall no trickling teares, | |
| But flouds that ouer flow abundantly: | |
| VVhose spring and fountaine first inforst by feares, | |
| Doth drowne my hart in waues of misery. | |
| My voice is like vnto the raging wind, | 5 |
| VVhich roareth still and neuer is at rest: | |
| The diuers thoughts that tumble in my minde, | |
| Are restlesse like the wheele that wherles alway. | |
| The smokie sighes that boyle out of my brest, | |
| Are farre vnlike to those which others vse: | 10 |
| For Louers sighes sometimes doe take their rest, | |
| And lends their minds a little space to muse. | |
| But mine are like vnto the surging seas, | |
| VVhom tempest calme nor quiet can appease. | | | | |
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