| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Sonnets after Astrophel, etc. | | Sonnet XXVI. I once may see, when years may wreck my wrong | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | | I ONCE may see, when years may wreck my wrong, | |
| And golden hairs may change to silver wire; | |
| And those bright rays (that kindle all this fire) | |
| Shall fail in force, their power not so strong. | |
| Her beauty, now the burden of my song, | 5 |
| Whose glorious blaze the world’s eye doth admire; | |
| Must yield her praise to tyrant TIME’s desire: | |
| Then fades the flower, which fed her pride so long. | |
| When if she grieve to gaze her in her glass, | |
| Which then presents her winter-withered hue: | 10 |
| Go you my verse! go tell her what she was! | |
| For what she was, she best may find in you. | |
| Your fiery heat lets not her glory pass, | |
| But Phœnix-like to make her live anew. | | | | |
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