| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Delia | | Sonnet VII. O had she not been fair, and thus unkind! | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | | O HAD she not been fair, and thus unkind! | |
| Then had no finger pointed at my lightness. | |
| The world had never known what I do find, | |
| And clouds obscure had shaded still her brightness. | |
| Then had no Censor’s eye these lines surveyed, | 5 |
| Nor graver brows have judged my Muse so vain: | |
| No sun, my blush and error had bewrayed; | |
| Nor yet the world had heard of such disdain. | |
| Then had I walked with bold erectèd face; | |
| No downcast look had signified my miss: | 10 |
| But my degraded hopes, with such disgrace, | |
| Did force me groan out griefs, and utter this. | |
| For, being full, should I not then have spoken; | |
| My sense, oppressed, had failed, and heart had broken. | | | | |
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