| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Delia | | Sonnet XXXV. But love! whilst that thou may’st be loved again! | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | | BUT love! whilst that thou may’st be loved again! | |
| Now, whilst thy May hath filled thy lap with flowers! | |
| Now, whilst thy beauty bears without a stain! | |
| Now, use thy summer smiles, ere Winter lowers! | |
| And whilst thou spread’st unto the rising sun, | 5 |
| The fairest flower that ever saw the light; | |
| Now joy thy time, before thy sweet be done! | |
| And, D E L I A! think thy morning must have night! | |
| And that thy brightness sets at length to West; | |
| When thou wilt close up that, which now thou showest! | 10 |
| And think the same becomes thy fading best, | |
| Which, then, shall hide it most, and cover lowest! | |
| Men do not weigh the stalk, for that it was; | |
| When once they find her flower, her glory pass. | | | | |
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