| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Delia | | Sonnet XXIII. False Hope prolongs my ever certain grief | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | | FALSE Hope prolongs my ever certain grief, | |
| Traitor to me, and faithful to my Love. | |
| A thousand times it promised me relief, | |
| Yet never any true effect I prove. | |
| Oft, when I find in her no truth at all, | 5 |
| I banish her, and blame her treachery: | |
| Yet, soon again, I must her back recall, | |
| As one that dies without her company. | |
| Thus often, as I chase my Hope from me, | |
| Straightway, she hastes her unto D E L I A’s eyes: | 10 |
| Fed with some pleasing look, there shall she be; | |
| And so sent back. And thus my fortune lies. | |
| Looks feed my Hope, Hope fosters me in vain; | |
| Hopes are unsure, when certain is my Pain. | | | | |
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