| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Delia | | Sonnet XLVII. O whither, poor Forsaken! wilt thou go? | | Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) |
| | [First printed in this edition.]
At the Author’s going into Italy.
O WHITHER, poor Forsaken! wilt thou go? | |
| To go from sorrow, and thine own distress; | |
| When every place presents like face of woe, | |
| And no remove can make thy sorrows less! | |
| Yet go, Forsaken! Leave these woods, these plains! | 5 |
| Leave her and all! and all for her, that leaves | |
| Thee and thy love forlorn; and both disdains: | |
| And of both, wrongful deems, and ill conceives. | |
| Seek out some place! and see if any place | |
| Can give the least release unto thy grief! | 10 |
| Convey thee from the thought of thy disgrace! | |
| Steal from thy self! and be thy cares own thief! | |
| But yet what comfort, shall I hereby gain? | |
| Bearing the wound, I needs must feel the pain. | | | | |
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