| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Fidessa | | Sonnet XXXV. I have not spent the April of my time | | Bartholomew Griffin (d. 1602) |
| | | I HAVE not spent the April of my time, | |
| The Swelt of Youth in plotting in the air! | |
| But do, at first adventure, seek to climb, | |
| Whilst flowers of blooming years are green and fair. | |
| I am no leaving of all-withering Age. | 5 |
| I have not suffered many winter lours. | |
| I feel no storm, unless my Love do rage. | |
| And then, in grief I spend both days and hours. | |
| This yet doth comfort that my flower lasted | |
| Until it did approach my sun too near: | 10 |
| And then, alas, untimely was it blasted, | |
| So soon as once thy beauty did appear! | |
| But after all, my comfort rests in this, | |
| That, for thy sake! my Youth decayed is. | | | | |
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