| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Sonnets after Astrophel, etc. | | Sonnet VII. Behold what hap Pygmalion had, to frame | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | | BEHOLD what hap PYGMALION had, to frame | |
| And carve his grief himself upon a stone: | |
| My heavy fortune is much like the same, | |
| I work on flint, and that’s the cause I moan. | |
| For hapless lo even with mine own desires, | 5 |
| I figured on the table of my heart; | |
| The goodliest shape that the world’s eye admires: | |
| And so did perish by my proper art. | |
| And still I toil to change the marble breast | |
| Of her whose sweet Idea I adore: | 10 |
| Yet cannot find her breathe unto my rest. | |
| Hard is her heart, and woe is me therefore. | |
| O blessed he that joys his stone and art! | |
| Unhappy I! to love a stony heart. | | | | |
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