| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | The Tears of Fancie | | Sonnet XLVII. Behold deare Mistres how each pleasant greene | | Thomas Watson (1555–1592) |
| | | BEHOLD deare Mistres how each pleasant greene, | |
| Will now renew his sommers liuerie: | |
| The fragrant flowers which haue not long beene seene, | |
| Will flourish now ere long in brauerie. | |
| But I alas within whose mourning mind, | 5 |
| The grafts of griefe are onelie giuen to grow: | |
| Cannot inioy the spring which others find, | |
| But still my will must wither all in woe. | |
| The lustie ver that whilome might exchange, | |
| My griefe to ioy, and my delight increase: | 10 |
| Springs now else where and showes to me but strange, | |
| My winters woe therefore can neuer cease. | |
| In other coasts his sunne doth clearly shine, | |
| And comfort lend to euery mould but mine. | | | | |
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