| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Fidessa | | Sonnet XVIII. O, She must love my sorrows to assuage | | Bartholomew Griffin (d. 1602) |
| | | O, SHE must love my sorrows to assuage. | |
| O God! what joy felt I when She did smile! | |
| Whom killing grief before did cause to rage. | |
| (Beauty is able Sorrow to beguile) | |
| Out, traitor Absence! thou dost hinder me! | 5 |
| And mak’st my Mistress often to forget, | |
| Causing me to rail upon her cruelty, | |
| Whilst thou my suit injuriously dost let! | |
| Again, her Presence doth astonish me, | |
| And strikes me dumb, as if my Sense were gone. | 10 |
| Oh! is not this a strange perplexity? | |
| In presence, dumb! she hears not absent moan! | |
| Thus absent, presence; present, absence maketh: | |
| That, hearing my poor suit, she it mistaketh! | | | | |
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