| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | The Tears of Fancie | | Sonnet XXV. The priuate place which I did choose to waile | | Thomas Watson (1555–1592) |
| | | THE PRIUATE place which I did choose to waile, | |
| And deere lament my loues pride was a groue; | |
| Plac’d twixt two hills within a lowlie dale, | |
| Which now by fame was cald the vale of loue. | |
| The vale of loue for there I spent my plainings, | 5 |
| Plaints that bewraid my sicke harts bitter wounding: | |
| Loue sicke harts deepe wounds with dispaire me paining, | |
| The bordering hills my sorrowing plaints resounding. | |
| Each tree did beare the figure of her name, | |
| VVhich my faint hand vppon their backs ingraued: | 10 |
| And euery tree did seeme her sore to blame, | |
| Calling her proud that mee of ioyes depraued. | |
| But vaine for shee had vowed to forsake mee, | |
| And I to endles anguish must betake mee. | | | | |
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