| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Sonnets after Astrophel, etc. | | Sonnet XV. Since the first look that led me to this error | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | | SINCE the first look that led me to this error, | |
| To this thoughts’ maze to my confusion tending; | |
| Still have I lived in grief, in hope, in terror; | |
| The circle of my sorrows never ending. | |
| Yet cannot have her love, that holds me hateful; | 5 |
| Her eyes exact it, though her heart disdains me. | |
| See what reward he hath that serves th’ungrateful? | |
| So long and pure a faith no favour gains me. | |
| Still must I whet my young desires abated, | |
| Upon the flint of such a heart rebelling: | 10 |
| And all in vain; her pride is so imated, | |
| She yields no place at all for PITY’s dwelling. | |
| Oft have I told her that my soul did love her, | |
| And that with tears: yet all this will not move her. | | | | |
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