| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | The Tears of Fancie | | Sonnet LI. Each tree did boast the wished spring times pride | | Thomas Watson (1555–1592) |
| | | EACH tree did boast the wished spring times pride, | |
| When solitarie in the vale of loue, | |
| I hid my selfe, so from the world to hide | |
| The vncouth passions which my hart did proue. | |
| No tree whose branches did not brauelie spring, | 5 |
| No branch whereon a fine bird did not sit: | |
| No bird but did her shrill notes sweetelie sing, | |
| No song but did containe a louelie dit. | |
| Trees, branches, birds, and songs were framed faire. | |
| Fit to allure fraile minde to careles ease: | 10 |
| But carefull was my thought, yet in dispaire, | |
| I dwelt, for brittle hope me cannot please. | |
| For when I view my loues faire eies reflecting, | |
| I entertaine dispaire, vaine hope reiecting. | | | | |
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