| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Diana | The Eighth Decade
Sonnet IV. My tears are true: though Others be divine | | Henry Constable (1562–1613) |
| | | MY tears are true: though Others be divine, | |
| And sing of wars, and Troy’s new rising frame; | |
| Meeting heroic feet in every line, | |
| That tread high measures in the Scene of Fame, | |
| And I (though disaccustoming my Muse, | 5 |
| And sing but low songs, in an humble vein) | |
| May one day raise my style, as others use; | |
| And turn Elizon to a higher strain. | |
| When reintombing from oblivious ages, | |
| In better stanzas her surviving wonder: | 10 |
| I may opposed against the monster-rages | |
| That part desert and excellence asunder: | |
| That she, though coy, may yet survive to see, | |
| Her beauty’s wonder lives again in me. | | | | |
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