Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.
Sonnets after Astrophel, etc.Sonnet XIV. If a true heart and faith unfeigned
Samuel Daniel (15621619)I
If a sweet languish with a chaste desire;
If hunger-starven thoughts so long retained,
Fed but with smoke, and cherished but with fire;
And if a brow with C
Bewray my love, with broken words half spoken,
To her which sits in my thoughts’ temple, sainted;
And lay to view my vulture-gnawen heart open:
If I have wept the day and sighed the night,
While thrice the sun approached his northern bound;
If such a faith hath ever wrought aright,
And well deserved, and yet no favour found.
Let this suffice; the whole world it may see,
The fault is hers, though mine the most hurt be.