| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | I Must Not Grieve My Love, Whose Eyes Would Read | | By Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | | I MUST not grieve my Love, whose eyes would read | |
| Lines of delight, whereon her youth might smile; | |
| Flowers have time before they come to seed, | |
| And she is young, and now must sport the while. | |
| And sport, Sweet Maid, in season of these years, | 5 |
| And learn to gather flowers before they wither; | |
| And where the sweetest blossom first appears, | |
| Let Love and Youth conduct thy pleasures thither. | |
| Lighten forth smiles to clear the clouded air, | |
| And calm the tempest which my sighs do raise; | 10 |
| Pity and smiles do best become the fair; | |
| Pity and smiles must only yield the praise. | |
| Make me to say when all my griefs are gone, | |
| Happy the heart that sighed for such a one. | | | | |
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