| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | The Tears of Fancie | | Sonnet LIII. In clowdes she shines and so obscurely shineth | | Thomas Watson (1555–1592) |
| | | IN clowdes she shines and so obscurely shineth, | |
| That like a mastles shipe at seas I wander: | |
| For want of her to guide my hart that pineth, | |
| Yet can I not entreat ne yet command her. | |
| So am I tied in Laborinths of fancy, | 5 |
| In darke and obscure Laborinths of loue: | |
| That euerie one may plaine behold that can see, | |
| How I am fetterd and what paines I proue. | |
| The Lampe whose light should lead my ship about, | |
| Is placed vpon my Mistres heauenlie face. | 10 |
| Her hand doth hold the clew must lead me out, | |
| And free my hart from thraldomes lothed place. | |
| But cleaue to lead me out or Lampe to light me, | |
| She scornefullie denide, the more to spight me. | | | | |
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