| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Delia | | Sonnet LV. Lo here, the impost of a faith unfeigning | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | [First printed, with verbal differences, in Sonnets after Sidney’s Astrophel (1591).] |
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LO here, the impost of a faith unfeigning, | |
| That love hath paid, and her disdain extorted! | |
| Behold the message of my just complaining, | |
| That shews the world, how much my grief imported! | |
| These tributary plaints, fraught with desire, | 5 |
| I send those Eyes, the Cabinets of Love! | |
| The Paradise, whereto my hopes aspire, | |
| From out this Hell, which mine afflictions prove. | |
| Wherein I thus do live, cast down from mirth; | |
| Pensive, alone, none but despair about me; | 10 |
| My joys abortive, perished at their birth; | |
| My cares long lived, and will not die without me. | |
| This is my state! and D E L I A ’s heart is such! | |
I say no more. I fear, I said too much.
F I N I S. | | | |
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