Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.
Sonnets after Astrophel, etc.Sonnet XII. The tablet of my heavy fortunes here
Samuel Daniel (15621619)[Not reprinted in Delia, Daniel’s authorised collection, 1592–4. ]
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Upon thine altar, Paphian Power! I place.
The grievous shipwrack of my travels dear
In bulged bark, all perished in disgrace.
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My sails were Hope, spread with my Sighs of Grief;
The twin lights which my hapless course did show
Hard by th’inconstant sands of false relief,
Were two bright stars which led my view apart.
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To perish on the marble of her heart:
A danger which my soul did never fear.
Lo, thus he fares that trusts a calm too much
And thus fare I whose credit hath been such.