| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Delia | | Sonnet XLIV. How long shall I, in mine affliction mourn? | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | | HOW long shall I, in mine affliction mourn? | |
| A burden to myself, distressed in mind; | |
| When shall my interdicted hopes return | |
| From out despair, wherein they live confined? | |
| When shall her troubled brow, charged with disdain, | 5 |
| Reveal the treasure which her smiles impart? | |
| When shall my faith that happiness attain, | |
| To break the ice, that hath congealed her heart? | |
| Unto herself, herself my love doth summon, | |
| (If love in her, hath any power to move): | 10 |
| And let her tell me, as she is a woman, | |
| Whether my faith hath not deserved her love? | |
| I know she cannot! but must needs confess it; | |
| Yet deigns not, with one simple sign t’express it. | | | | |
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