| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Delia | | Sonnet XLIII. My Delia hath the waters of mine eyes | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | [First printed, with verbal differences, in Sonnets after Sidney’s Astrophel (1591).] |
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MY D E L I A hath the waters of mine eyes, | |
| (The ready handmaids on her grace attending) | |
| That never fall to ebb, but ever rise; | |
| For to their flow, she never grants an ending. | |
| Th’ocean never did attend more duly | 5 |
| Upon his Sovereign’s course, the night’s pale Queen; | |
| Nor paid the impost of his waves more truly, | |
| Than mine unto her Deity have been. | |
| Yet nought, the rock of that hard heart can move; | |
| Where beat these tears with zeal, and fury driveth: | 10 |
| And yet, I rather languish in her love, | |
| Than I would joy the fairest she that liveth. | |
| I doubt to find such pleasure in my gaining; | |
| As now I taste, in compass of complaining. | | | |
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