| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Delia | | Sonnet LIII. None other fame, mine unambitious Muse | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | | NONE other fame, mine unambitious Muse | |
| Affected ever, but t’eternize Thee! | |
| All other honours do my hopes refuse, | |
| Which meaner prized and momentary be. | |
| For, GOD forbid! I should my papers blot | 5 |
| With mercenary lines, with servile pen; | |
| Praising virtues in them that have them not, | |
| Basely attending on the hopes of men. | |
| No! no! My Verse respects not Thames, nor Theatres; | |
| Nor seeks it to be known unto the great: | 10 |
| But Avon, poor in fame, and poor in waters, | |
| Shall have my song, where D E L I A hath her seat. | |
| Avon shall be my Thames, and She my Song; | |
| I’ll sound her name, the river all along. | | | | |
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