| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part III. | | XXII. The snow-white Swan betokens brightsome Day | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | THE SNOW-WHITE Swan betokens brightsome Day: | |
| The coal-black Crow, of darky Night is sign. | |
| Thou Day, or Night, bring unto me still may, | |
| With those bright lamps, those glistering stars, of thine. | |
| But, cruel thou, thy heart is bent so hard, | 5 |
| As I that sun can never see with eyes | |
| (That wished-for sun, from these my lights debarred): | |
| Nor aught discern but mists, in foggy wise. | |
| Then since I live in woe; and, blind, nought see: | |
| A Crow, not Swan, thou still shalt be to me! | 10 | | | |
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