| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Delia | | Sonnet V. Whilst Youth and Error led my wandering mind | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | | WHILST Youth and Error led my wandering mind, | |
| And set my thoughts, in heedless ways to range; | |
| All unawares, a goddess chaste I find, | |
| D I A N A-like, to work my sudden change. | |
| For her, no sooner had mine eye bewrayed; | 5 |
| But with disdain to see me in that place, | |
| With fairest hand, the sweet unkindest maid | |
| Casts water-cold disdain upon my face: | |
| Which turned my sport into a hart’s despair, | |
| Which still is chased, while I have any breath, | 10 |
| By mine own thoughts, set on me by my Fair. | |
| My thoughts, like hounds, pursue me to my death. | |
| Those that I fostered, of mine own accord, | |
| Are made by her, to murder thus their Lord. | | | | |
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