| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Delia | | Sonnet XXXVII. When Winter snows upon thy golden hairs | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | | WHEN Winter snows upon thy golden hairs, | |
| And frost of Age hath nipped thy flowers near; | |
| When dark shall seem thy day, that never clears, | |
| And all lies withered that was held so dear: | |
| Then take this picture, which I here present thee! | 5 |
| Limned with a pencil, not all unworthy, | |
| Here, see the gifts that GOD and Nature lent thee! | |
| Here, read thy Self! and what I suffered for thee! | |
| This may remain thy lasting monument, | |
| Which, happily, posterity may cherish: | 10 |
| These colours, with thy fading, are not spent; | |
| These may remain, when thou and I shall perish. | |
| If they remain, then thou shalt live thereby! | |
| They will remain, and so thou canst not die! | | | | |
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