StoryTitle("caps", "Beauty, Time, and~Love") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
Sonnet I
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fair is my Love and cruel as she's fair;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her brow-shades frown, although her eyes are sunny.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Her smiles are lightning, though her pride despair,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And her disdains are gall, her favours honey:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A modest maid, deck'd with a blush of honour,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whose feet do tread green paths of youth and love;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The wonder of all eyes that look upon her,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sacred on earth, design'd a Saint above.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Chastity and Beauty, which were deadly foes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Live reconciléd friends within her brow;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And had she Pity to conjoin with those,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then who had heard the plaints I utter now?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For had she not been fair, and thus unkind,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "My Muse had slept, and none had known my mind.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
Sonnet II
PoemLine("L0", "", "My spotless love hovers with purest wings,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "About the temple of the proudest frame,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where blaze those lights, fairest of earthly things,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which clear our clouded world with brightest flame.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My ambitious thoughts, confinéd in her face,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Affect no honour but what she can give;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My hopes do rest in limits of her grace;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I weigh no comfort unless she relieve.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For she, that can my heart imparadise,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Holds in her fairest hand what dearest is;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My Fortune's wheel's the circle of her eyes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whose rolling grace deign once a turn of bliss.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All my life's sweet consists in her alone;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "So much I love the most Unloving one.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
Sonnet III
PoemLine("L0", "", "And yet I cannot reprehend the flight", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or blame th' attempt presuming so to soar;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The mounting venture for a high delight", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Did make the honour of the fall the more.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For who gets wealth, that puts not from the shore?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Danger hath honour, great designs their fame;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Glory doth follow, courage goes before;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And though th' event oft answers not the same—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Suffice that high attempts have never shame.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The mean observer, whom base safety keeps,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lives without honour, dies without a name,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And in eternal darkness ever sleeps.—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And therefore, Delia, 'tis to me no blot", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To have attempted, tho' attain'd thee not.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
Sonnet IV
PoemLine("L0", "", "When men shall find thy flow'r, thy glory, pass,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And thou with careful brow, sitting alone,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Receivéd hast this message from thy glass,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That tells the truth and says that
All is gone;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fresh shalt thou see in me the wounds thou mad'st,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Though spent thy flame, in me the heat remaining:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I that have loved thee thus before thou fad'st—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My faith shall wax, when thou art in thy waning.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The world shall find this miracle in me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That fire can burn when all the matter's spent:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then what my faith hath been thyself shalt see,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And that thou wast unkind thou may'st repent.—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thou may'st repent that thou hast scorn'd my tears,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When Winter snows upon thy sable hairs.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
Sonnet V
PoemLine("L0", "", "Beauty, sweet Love, is like the morning dew,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whose short refresh upon the tender green", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And straight 'tis gone as it had never been.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Soon doth it fade that makes the fairest flourish,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Short is the glory of the blushing rose;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The hue which thou so carefully dost nourish,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet which at length thou must be forced to lose.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When thou, surcharged with burthen of thy years,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shalt bend thy wrinkles homeward to the earth;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And that, in Beauty's Lease expired, appears", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Date of Age, the Calends of our Death—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But ah, no more!—this must not be foretold,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For women grieve to think they must be old.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
Sonnet VI
PoemLine("L0", "", "I must not grieve my Love, whose eyes would read", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lines of delight, whereon her youth might smile;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Flowers have time before they come to seed,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And she is young, and now must sport the while.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And sport, Sweet Maid, in season of these years,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And learn to gather flowers before they wither;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And where the sweetest blossom first appears,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let Love and Youth conduct thy pleasures thither.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lighten forth smiles to clear the clouded air,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And calm the tempest which my sighs do raise;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Pity and smiles do best become the fair;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Pity and smiles must only yield thee praise.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Make me to say when all my griefs are gone,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Happy the heart that sighed for such a one!", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
Sonnet VII
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let others sing of Knights and Paladines", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In agéd accents and untimely words,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Paint shadows in imaginary lines,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which well the reach of their high wit records:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But I must sing of thee, and those fair eyes", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Authentic shall my verse in time to come;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When yet th' unborn shall say, Lo, where she lies!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whose beauty made him speak, that else was dumb!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "These are the arcs, the trophies I erect,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That fortify thy name against old age;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And these thy sacred virtues must protect", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Against the Dark, and Time's consuming rage.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Though th' error of my youth in them appear,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Suffice, they show I lived, and loved thee dear.", "") ?>
Poet("Samuel Daniel", "1562-1619") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>