Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867.
I. Description of Spring and SummerHenry Howard, Earl of Surrey (15171547)
Wherein everything renews, save only the Lover
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With green hath clad the hill, and eke the vale;
The nightingale, with feathers new, she sings;
The turtle to her make hath told her tale;
Summer is come, for every spray now springs;
The hart hath hung his old head on the pale;
The buck in brake his winter coat he flings;
The fishes flete with new repairéd scale;
The adder all her slough away she slings;
The swift swallow pursueth the flies smale;
The busy bee her honey now she mings;
Winter is worn, that was the flowers’ bale;
And thus I see, among these pleasant things,
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs.