| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Zepheria | | Canzon 30. What! Shall I ne’er more see those Halcion days! | | Anonymous |
| | | WHAT! Shall I ne’er more see those Halcion days! | |
| Those sunny Sabbaths! Days of Jubilee! | |
| Wherein I carrolled merry Roundelays, | |
| Odes, and Love Songs? which, being viewed by thee, | |
| Received allowance worthy better writ! | 5 |
| When we, on Shepherds’ Holy Days have hied | |
| Down to the flow’ry pastures (flowers, for thy treading fit!) | |
| Holy the day, when thou it sanctified! | |
| When thou, ZEPHERIA, wouldst but deign to bless it, | |
| How have I, jealous over PHŒBUS’ rays, | 10 |
| Clouded thy Fair! Then, fearing he would guess it | |
| By thy white brow, it have I cinct’ with bays! | |
| But, woe is me! that I have fenced thy beauty! | |
| Sith other must enjoy it, and not I. | | | | |
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