| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Delia | | Sonnet XII. My spotless love hovers, with purest wings | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | | MY spotless love hovers, with purest wings, | |
| About the temple of the proudest frame; | |
| Where blaze those lights, fairest of earthly things, | |
| Which clear our clouded world with brightest flame. | |
| M’ ambitious thoughts, confinèd in her face, | 5 |
| Affect no honour, but what she can give: | |
| My hopes do rest in limits of her grace; | |
| I weigh no comfort, unless she relieve. | |
| For she, that can my heart imparadise, | |
| Holds in her fairest hand, what dearest is. | 10 |
| My Fortune’s Wheel ’s the Circle of her Eyes; | |
| Whose rolling grace deign once a turn of bliss! | |
| All my life’s sweet consists in her alone; | |
| So much I love the most unloving one. | | | | |
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