| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Delia | | Sonnet XXXVIII. Thou canst not die, whilst any zeal abound | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | | THOU canst not die, whilst any zeal abound | |
| In feeling hearts, that can conceive these lines: | |
| Though thou, a LAURA, hast no PETRARCH found; | |
| In base attire, yet, clearly, Beauty shines. | |
| And I, though born within a colder clime, | 5 |
| Do feel mine inward heat as great (I know it). | |
| He never had more faith, although more rhyme: | |
| I love as well, though he could better show it. | |
| But I may add one feather to thy fame, | |
| To help her flight throughout the fairest Isle; | 10 |
| And if my pen could more enlarge thy name, | |
| Then should’st thou live in an immortal style. | |
| For though that LAURA better limnèd be; | |
| Suffice, thou shalt be loved as well as she! | | | | |
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