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Delia: Rejected Sonnet 7
From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles, ed. M. F. Crow (1896)
My cares draw on mine everlasting night,
In horror's sable clouds sets my life's sun;
My life's sweet sun, my dearest comfort's light
Shall rise no more to me whose day is done.
I'll go before unto the myrtle shades,
T'attend the presence of my world's dear;
And there prepare her flowers that never fades,
And all things fit against her coming there.
If any ask me why so soon I came,
I'll hide her sin and say it was my lot.
In life and death I'll tender her good name;
My life nor death shall never be her blot.
Although this world may seem her deed to blame,
The Elysian ghosts shall never know the same.
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Daniel, Samuel. “Delia: Rejected Sonnet 7.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/daniel/67/.
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Daniel, Samuel. “Delia: Rejected Sonnet 7.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/daniel/67/.
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