| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Phillis | | Sonnet XXXII. A thousand times to think and think the same | | Thomas Lodge (1558–1625) |
| | | A THOUSAND times to think and think the same | |
| To two fair eyes to show a naked heart, | |
| Great thirst with bitter liquor to restrain, | |
| To take repast of care and crooked smart; | |
| To sigh full oft without relent of ire, | 5 |
| To die for grief and yet conceal the tale, | |
| To others’ will to fashion my desire, | |
| To pine in looks disguised through pensive-pale; | |
| A short despite, a faith unfeigned true, | |
| To love my foe, and set my life at naught, | 10 |
| With heedless eyes mine endless harms to view | |
| A will to speak, a fear to tell the thought; | |
| To hope for all, yet for despair to die, | |
| Is of my life the certain destiny. | | | | |
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