| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Sonnets after Astrophel, etc. | | Sonnet XXII. If this be love, to draw a weary breath | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | | IF this be love, to draw a weary breath, | |
| To paint on floods till the shore cry to the air; | |
| With prone aspect still treading on the earth. | |
| Sad horror! pale grief! prostrate despair! | |
| If this be love, to war against my soul, | 5 |
| Rise up to wail, lie down to sigh, to grieve me, | |
| With ceaseless toil CARE’s restless stones to roll, | |
| Still to complain and moan, whilst none relieve me. | |
| If this be love, to languish in such care | |
| Loathing the light, the world, myself and all, | 10 |
| With interrupted sleeps, fresh griefs repair; | |
| And breathe out horror in perplexed thrall. | |
| If this be love, to live a living death: | |
| Lo then love I, and draw this weary breath. | | | | |
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