| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Diana | The Fourth Decade
Sonnet VIII. “Why thus unjustly,” say, my cruel fate! | | Henry Constable (1562–1613) |
| | | “WHY thus unjustly,” say, my cruel fate! | |
| “Dost thou adjudge my luckless eyes and heart; | |
| The one to live exiled from that sweet smart, | |
| Where th’other pines, imprisoned without date?” | |
| My luckless eyes must never more debate | 5 |
| Of those bright beams, that eased my love apart: | |
| And yet my heart, bound to them with love’s dart. | |
| Must there dwell ever, to bemoan my state. | |
| O had mine eyes been suffered there to rest! | |
| Often they had my heart’s unquiet eased: | 10 |
| Or had my heart with banishment been blest! | |
| Mine eye with beauty never had been pleased. | |
| But since these cross effects hath fortune wrought; | |
| Dwell, heart, with her! Eyes, view her in my thought! | | | | |
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