| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Fidessa | | Sonnet VII. Oft have mine Eyes, the Agents of mine Heart | | Bartholomew Griffin (d. 1602) |
| | | OFT have mine Eyes, the Agents of mine Heart | |
| (False traitor Eyes conspiring my decay!) | |
| Pleaded for grace with dumb and silent art, | |
| Streaming forth tears, my sorrows to allay. | |
| Moaning the wrong, they do unto their Lord, | 5 |
| Forcing the cruel Fair, by means to yield; | |
| Making her, ’gainst her will, some grace t’afford; | |
| And striving sore, at length to win the field, | |
| Thus work they means to feed my fainting hope, | |
| And strengthened hope adds matter to each thought; | 10 |
| Yet when they all come to their end and scope, | |
| They do but wholly bring poor me, to nought. | |
| She’ll never yield! although they ever cry; | |
| And therefore we must all together die! | | | | |
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