| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Delia | | Sonnet XXXIV. Look, Delia! how we ’steem the half-blown rose | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | | LOOK, D E L I A! how we ’steem the half-blown rose, | |
| (The image of thy blush! and summer’s honour) | |
| Whilst, in her tender green, she doth inclose | |
| The pure sweet beauty Time bestows upon her! | |
| No sooner spreads her glory in the air, | 5 |
| But straight her full-blown pride is in declining; | |
| She then is scorned, that late adorned the fair. | |
| So clouds thy beauty, after fairest shining! | |
| No April can revive thy withered flowers, | |
| Whose blooming grace adorns thy glory now! | 10 |
| Swift speedy Time, feathered with flying hours, | |
| Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow. | |
| O let not then such riches waste in vain! | |
| But love! whilst that thou may’st be loved again! | | | | |
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