| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | The Tears of Fancie | | Sonnet LVIII. When as I marke the ioy of euery wight | | Thomas Watson (1555–1592) |
| | | WHEN as I marke the ioy of euery wight, | |
| Howe in their mindes deepe throbbing sorrow ceaseth | |
| And by what meanes they nourish their delight, | |
| Their sweet delight my paine the more increaseth. | |
| For as the Deare that sees his fellow feede, | 5 |
| Amid the lusty heard, himselfe sore brused: | |
| Or as the bird that feeles her selfe to bleede, | |
| And lies aloofe of all her pheeres refused. | |
| So haue I found and now too deerely trie, | |
| That pleasure doubleth paine and blisse annoy: | 10 |
| Yet still I twit my selfe of Surcuidrie, | |
| As one that am vnworthy to inioy. | |
| The lasting frute of such a heauenly loue, | |
| For whom these endles sorrowes I approue. | | | | |
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