Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Mark Alexander Boyd. 15631601114. Sonet
FRA bank to bank, fra wood to wood I rin, | |
Ourhailit with my feeble fantasie; | |
Like til a leaf that fallis from a tree, | |
Or til a reed ourblawin with the win. | |
Twa gods guides me: the ane of tham is blin, | 5 |
Yea and a bairn brocht up in vanitie; | |
The next a wife ingenrit of the sea, | |
And lichter nor a dauphin with her fin. | |
Unhappy is the man for evermair | |
That tills the sand and sawis in the air; | 10 |
But twice unhappier is he, I lairn, | |
That feidis in his hairt a mad desire, | |
And follows on a woman throw the fire, | |
Led by a blind and teachit by a bairn. |