| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Sonnets after Astrophel, etc. | | Sonnet XIII. My Cynthia hath the waters of mine eyes | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | | MY CYNTHIA hath the waters of mine eyes, | |
| The ready handmaids on her Grace attending, | |
| That never fall to ebb, nor ever die; | |
| For to their flow she never grants an ending. | |
| The Ocean never doth attend more duly | 5 |
| Upon his sovereign, the night wand’ring Queen; | |
| Nor ever hath his impost paid more truly, | |
| Than mine, to my soul’s Queen hath ever been. | |
| Yet her hard rock, firm fixt for aye removing, | |
| No comfort to my cares she ever giveth: | 10 |
| Yet had I rather languish in her loving, | |
| Than to embrace the fairest she that liveth. | |
| I fear to find such pleasure in my reigning; | |
| As now I taste in compass of complaining. | | | | |
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