| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Chloris | | Sonnet XXVIII. What cruel star, or fate, had dominion | | William Smith (fl. 1596) |
| | | WHAT cruel star, or fate, had dominion | |
| When I was born? that thus my love is crossed. | |
| Or from what planet had I derivation? | |
| That thus my life in seas of woe is crossed. | |
| Doth any live that ever hath such hap, | 5 |
| That all their actions are of none effect? | |
| Whom Fortune never dandled in her lap; | |
| But, as an abject, still doth me reject. | |
| Ah, fickle Dame! and yet thou constant art | |
| My daily grief and anguish to increase! | 10 |
| And to augment the troubles of my heart; | |
| Thou, of these bonds will never me release! | |
| So that thy darlings, me to be may know, | |
| The true Idea of all Worldly Woe. | | | | |
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