| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Sonnets after Astrophel, etc. | | Sonnet XXV. To hear the impost of a faith not feigning | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | | TO hear the impost of a faith not feigning, | |
| That duty pays, and her disdain extorteth: | |
| These bear the message of my woeful paining, | |
| These olive branches mercy still exhorteth. | |
| These tributary plaints with chaste desires, | 5 |
| I send those eyes, the cabinets of love; | |
| The paradise whereto my soul aspires, | |
| From out this hell, which my afflictions prove: | |
| Wherein, poor soul! I live exiled from mirth, | |
| Pensive alone, none but despair about me. | 10 |
| My joys’ liberties perished in their birth, | |
| My cares long lived, and will not die without me. | |
| What shall I do, but sigh and wail the while; | |
| My martyrdom exceeds the highest style. | | | | |
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