| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Delia | | Sonnet XLI. Fair and lovely Maid! Look from the shore! | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | | FAIR and lovely Maid! Look from the shore! | |
| See thy LEANDER striving in these waves! | |
| Poor soul! quite spent, whose force can do no more. | |
| Now send forth hopes! (for now calm pity saves) | |
| And waft him to thee, with those lovely eyes! | 5 |
| A happy convoy to a Holy Land. | |
| Now show thy power! and where thy virtue lies! | |
| To save thine own, stretch out the fairest hand! | |
| Stretch out the fairest hand! a pledge of peace; | |
| That hand that darts so right, and never misses! | 10 |
| I shall forget old wrongs. My griefs shall cease. | |
| And that which gave me wounds, I’ll give it kisses. | |
| O then, let th’ocean of my care find shore! | |
| That thou be pleased, and I may sigh no more. | | | | |
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