| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Chloris | | Sonnet XXIX. Some in their hearts, their Mistress’s colours bear | | William Smith (fl. 1596) |
| | | SOME in their hearts, their Mistress’s colours bear; | |
| Some hath her gloves; some other hath her garters; | |
| Some in a bracelet wear her golden hair; | |
| And some with kisses seal their loving charters: | |
| But I, which never favour reapèd yet, | 5 |
| Nor had one pleasant look from her fair brow; | |
| Content myself in silent shade to sit, | |
| In hope at length my cares to overplow. | |
| Meanwhile mine eyes shall feed on her fair face! | |
| My sighs shall tell to her my sad designs! | 10 |
| My painful pen shall ever sue for grace! | |
| To help my heart, which languishing now pines. | |
| And I will triumph still amidst my woe, | |
| Till mercy shall my sorrows overflow. | | | | |
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