| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | The Tears of Fancie | | Sonnet XXIII. Aye me that loue wants power to pierce the hart | | Thomas Watson (1555–1592) |
| | | AYE me that loue wants power to pierce the hart, | |
| Of my harts obiect beauties rarest wonder: | |
| VVhat is become of that hart-thrilling dart, | |
| VVhose power brought the heauenly powers vnder. | |
| Ah gentle loue if empty be thy quiuer, | 5 |
| Vnmaske thy selfe and looke within my brest: | |
| VVhere thou shalt find the dart that made me shiuer, | |
| But can I liue and see my loue distrest. | |
| Ah no that shaft was cause of sorrow endles, | |
| And paine perpetuall should my Lady proue: | 10 |
| If hart were pierst, the deare loue be not friendles, | |
| Although I neuer found a friend of loue, | |
| If not without her hart, her loue be gained, | |
| Let me liue still forlorne and die disdained. | | | | |
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