Love

Delia: Sonnet 32

by Samuel Daniel 1562–1619

From Delia

Love

O Why doth DELIA credite so her glasse,
Gazing her beautie deign'd her by the skyes;
And doth not rather looke on him (alas) whose state best shewes ye force of murthering eyes
The broken tops of loftie trees declare,
The furie of a mercy-wanting storme:
And of what force your wounding grances are,
Vpon my selfe you best may find the forme.
Then leaue your glasse, and gaze your selfe on mee,
That Mirror shewes what power is in your face:
To view your forme too much, may daunger bee,
Narcissus chang'd t'a flower in such a case.
And you are chang'd, but not t'a Hiacint;
I feare your eye hath turn'd your hart to flint.

MLA

Daniel, Samuel. “Delia: Sonnet 32.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/daniel/31/.

Chicago

Daniel, Samuel. “Delia: Sonnet 32.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/daniel/31/.

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