| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Diana | The Sixth Decade
Sonnet VIII. Unhappy day! unhappy month and season! | | Henry Constable (1562–1613) |
| | | UNHAPPY day! unhappy month and season! | |
| When first proud love, my joys away adjourning, | |
| Poured into mine eye (to her eye turning) | |
| A deadly juice, unto my green thoughts geason. | |
| Prisoner I am unto the eye I gaze on: | 5 |
| Eternally my love’s flame is in burning: | |
| A mortal shaft still wounds me in my mourning: | |
| Thus prisoned, burnt, and slain; the spirit, soul, and reason; | |
| What tides me then, since these pains which annoy me, | |
| In my despair, are evermore increasing? | 10 |
| The more I love, less is my pain’s releasing; | |
| That cursèd be the fortune which destroys me, | |
| The hour, the month, the season, and the cause; | |
| When love first made me thrall to lovers’ laws. | | | | |
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