Love

Delia: Sonnet 18

by Samuel Daniel 1562–1619

From Delia

Love

SInce the first looke that led me to this error,
To this thoughts-maze, to my confusion tending:
Still haue I liu'd in griefe, in hope, in error,
The circle of my sorrowes neuer ending.
Yet cannot leaue her loue that holds me hatefull,
Her eyes exact it, thoūgh-her hart disdaines me;
See what reward he hath that serues th' vngrateful,
So true and loyall loue no fauour gaines me.
Still must I whet my young desires abated,
Vpon the Flint of such a hart rebelling;
And all in vaine, her pride is so innated,
Shee yeeldes no place at all for pitryes dwelling.
Oft haue I told her that my soule did loue her,
(And that with teares,) yet all this will not moue her.

MLA

Daniel, Samuel. “Delia: Sonnet 18.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/daniel/17/.

Chicago

Daniel, Samuel. “Delia: Sonnet 18.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/daniel/17/.

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