| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Sonnets after Astrophel, etc. | | Sonnet XIX. Happy in sleep; waking, content to languish | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | | HAPPY in sleep; waking, content to languish; | |
| Embracing clouds by night; in day time mourn; | |
| All things I loathe save her and mine own anguish; | |
| Pleased in my heart moved to live forlorn. | |
| Nought do I crave but love, death or my lady. | 5 |
| Hoarse with crying, “Mercy!” (Mercy yet my merit), | |
| So many vows and prayers ever made I; | |
| That now at length to yield, mere pity were it. | |
| Yet since the Hydra of my cares renewing, | |
| Revives still sorrows of her fresh disdaining: | 10 |
| Still must I go the summer winds pursuing, | |
| And nothing but her love and my heart’s paining. | |
| Weep hours! grieve days! sigh months! and still mourn yearly! | |
| Thus must I do because I love her dearly. | | | | |
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