| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Diella | | Sonnet VIII. Like to a falcon watching for a flight | | Richard Linche (fl. 1596–1601) |
| | | LIKE to a falcon watching for a flight, | |
| duly attending his desirèd game; | |
| Have I oft watched and marked to have a sight | |
| of thy fair face, exceeding niggard Fame! | |
| Thine eyes, those seminaries of my grief! | 5 |
| have been more gladsome to my tirèd sprite, | |
| Than naked savages receive relief | |
| by comfort-bearing warmth of PHŒBUS’ light. | |
| But when each part so glorious I had seen; | |
| I trembled more than Autumn’s parchèd leaves! | 10 |
| Mine eyes were greedy whirlpools sucking in | |
| that heavenly Fair, which me of rest bereaves. | |
| Then as thy Beauty thus hath conquered me, | |
| Fair! let relenting Pity conquer thee! | | | | |
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