| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Phillis | | Sonnet XXIX. I feel myself endangered beyond reason | | Thomas Lodge (1558–1625) |
| | | I FEEL myself endangered beyond reason, | |
| My death already ’twixt the cup and lip, | |
| Because my proud desire through cursèd treason | |
| Would make my hopes mount heaven, which cannot skip; | |
| My fancy still requireth at my hands | 5 |
| Such things as are not, cannot, may not be, | |
| And my desire although my power withstands | |
| Will give me wings, who never yet could flee. | |
| What then remains except my maimed soul | |
| Extort compassion from love-flying age, | 10 |
| Or if naught else their fury may control, | |
| To call on death that quells affection’s rage; | |
| Which death shall dwell with me and never fly, | |
| Since vain desire seeks that hope doth deny. | | | | |
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