| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Delia | | Sonnet XXXVI. When men shall find thy flower, thy glory pass | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | | WHEN men shall find thy flower, thy glory pass: | |
| And thou, with careful brow, sitting alone, | |
| Receivèd hast this message, from thy glass; | |
| That tells the truth, and says that “All is gone!” | |
| Fresh shalt thou see in me, the wounds thou madest; | 5 |
| Though spent thy flame, in me the heat remaining. | |
| I that have loved thee thus before thou fadest, | |
| My faith shall wax, when thou art in thy waning! | |
| The world shall find this miracle in me, | |
| That fire can burn, when all the matter ’s spent. | 10 |
| Then what my faith hath been, thyself shalt see! | |
| And that thou wast unkind, thou may’st repent! | |
| Thou may’st repent, that thou hast scorned my tears, | |
| When Winter snows upon thy golden hairs. | | | | |
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