RPO -- Samuel Daniel : Delia XLVI

Representative Poetry Online

Poet Index Poem Index Random Search

Introduction Timeline Calendar Glossary Criticism Bibliography

RPO Canadian Poetry UTEL

Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)

Delia XLVI

1Let others sing of knights and paladines

2In aged accents and untimely words;

3Paint shadows in imaginary lines

4Which well the reach of their high wits records:

5But I must sing of thee, and those fair eyes

6Authentic shall my verse in time to come,

7When yet th' unborn shall say, "Lo where she lies

8Whose beauty made him speak that else was dumb."

9These are the arks, the trophies I erect,

10That fortify thy name against old age;

11And these thy sacred virtues must protect

12Against the dark, and time's consuming rage.

13Though th' error of my youth they shall discover,

14Suffice they show I liv'd and was thy lover.

Notes

2] untimely words: words no longer used.

6] Authentic: authenticate.

9] arks: shrines.

Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries.

Original text: Samuel Daniel, Delia. Contayning certayne sonnets: with the complaint of Rosamond (J. C. for S. Waterson, 1592). STC 6243.5. Facs. edn.: Scolar Press, 1969. PR 2464 D4 1592A ROBA.
First publication date: 1592
RPO poem editor: F. D. Hoeniger
RP edition: 3RP 1.126.
Recent editing: 2:2002/4/25

Form: sonnet
Rhyme: ababcdcdefefgg

Other poems by Samuel Daniel