| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Diella | | Sonnet XIV. When broad-faced rivers turn unto their fountains | | Richard Linche (fl. 1596–1601) |
| | | WHEN broad-faced rivers turn unto their fountains | |
| and hungry wolves devourèd are by sheep; | |
| When marine dolphins play on snow-tipped mountains, | |
| and foul-formed bears do in the ocean keep: | |
| Then shall I leave to love, and cease to burn | 5 |
| in these hot flames, wherein I now delight! | |
| But this I know, the rivers ne’er return, | |
| nor silly sheep with ravening wolves dare fight, | |
| Nor dolphins leave the seas, nor bears, the woods; | |
| for Nature bids them all to keep their kind. | 10 |
| Then eyes, rain forth your over-swellèd floods, | |
| till, drownèd in such seas, may make you blind! | |
| Then, Heart’s Delight! sith I must love thee ever, | |
| Love me again! and let thy love persèver! | | | | |
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