| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Delia | | Sonnet VI. Fair is my love, and cruel as she’s fair | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | | FAIR is my love, and cruel as she’s fair: | |
| Her brow shades frowns, although her eyes are sunny; | |
| Her smiles are lightening, though her pride despair; | |
| And her disdains are gall, her favours honey. | |
| A modest maid, decked with a blush of honour, | 5 |
| Whose feet do tread green paths of youth and love; | |
| The wonder of all eyes that look upon her: | |
| Sacred on earth, designed a saint above, | |
| Chastity and Beauty, which were deadly foes, | |
| Live reconcilèd friends within her brow: | 10 |
| And had she Pity, to conjoin with those; | |
| Then who had heard the plaints I utter now? | |
| O had she not been fair, and thus unkind; | |
| My Muse had slept, and none had known my mind! | | | | |
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