| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part II. | | VII. As rocks become, exposed ’gainst waves and wind | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | AS rocks become, exposed ’gainst waves and wind, | |
| More hard; such is thy nature, stubborn Dame! | |
| Opposed ’gainst waters of my plaints most kind; | |
| And winds of mine hot sighs, which inward flame, | |
| That hardness such to increase ’bout heart is found, | 5 |
| As to it, soft might seem the diamond. | |
| Henceforward then, let no man think to move | |
| By weeping or lamenting, to his will, | |
| This self-willed Saint; which too too well I prove | |
| A senseless stone to be unto me still. | 10 |
| Since, to my grief, from all good luck debarred; | |
| With plaints and sighs, she doth become more hard. | | | | |
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