| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Delia | | Sonnet XXVIII. Oft do I marvel, whether Delia’s eyes | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | [First printed in this edition.]
OFT do I marvel, whether D E L I A’s eyes | |
| Are eyes, or else two radiant stars that shine? | |
| For how could Nature ever thus devise | |
| Of earth, on earth, a substance so divine? | |
| Stars, sure, they are! Whose motions rule desires; | 5 |
| And calm and tempest follow their aspects: | |
| Their sweet appearing still such power inspires, | |
| That makes the world admire so strange effects. | |
| Yet whether fixed or wandering stars are they, | |
| Whose influence rules the Orb of my poor heart? | 10 |
| Fixed, sure, they are! But wandering, make me stray | |
| In endless errors; whence I cannot part. | |
| Stars, then, not eyes! Move you, with milder view, | |
| Your sweet aspect on him that honours you! | | | | |
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