| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Delia | | Sonnet LIV. Unhappy pen! and ill accepted papers! | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | | UNHAPPY pen! and ill accepted papers! | |
| That intimate, in vain, my chaste desires: | |
| My chaste desires, the ever-burning tapers, | |
| Enkindled by her eyes’ celestial fires. | |
| Celestial fires! and unrespecting powers, | 5 |
| That deign not view the glory of your might! | |
| In humble lines, the work of careful hours, | |
| The sacrifice I offer to her sight. | |
| But since she scorns her own; this rests for me. | |
| I’ll moan, myself; and hide the wrong I have: | 10 |
| And so content me, that her frowns should be | |
| To m’infant style, the cradle and the grave. | |
| What though myself no honour get thereby; | |
| Each birds sings to herself, and so will I! | | | | |
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