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Elizabethan SonnetCycles Delia Diana Henry Constable Books
If this be love, to draw a weary breath,To paint on floods till the shore cry to th'air;
With downward looks still reading on the earth.
These sad memorials of my love's despair;
If this be love, to war against my soul,
Lie down to wail, rise up to sigh and grieve,
The never-resting stone of care to roll,
Still to complain my griefs, whilst none relieve;
If this be love, to clothe me with dark thoughts,
Haunting untrodden paths to wail apart,
My pleasures horror, music tragic notes,
Tears in mine eyes and sorrow at my heart;
If this be love, to live a living death,
Then do I love, and draw this weary breath.
Samuel Daniel's Delia is certainly one of the best of all Elizabethan sonnet cycles; polished, tasteful, sometimes (one hopes) even sincere, although note well that 'Delia' is an anagram for 'Ideal.'
Constable is also a fine sonneteer. His penchant for 'conceits' (elaborate, even strained metaphors) looks forward to the 'metaphysical' poets of the next generation. I choose the sonnet below because it contrasts well with Daniel's, although both have more variety than one sonnet apiece can indicate:
To live in hell, and heaven to behold;
To welcome life, and die a living death;
To sweat with heat, and yet be freezing cold;
To grasp at stars, and lie the earth beneath;
To treat a maze that never shall have end;
To burn in sighs, and starve in daily tears;
To climb a hill, and never to descend;
Giants to kill, and quake at childish fears;
To pine for food, and watch th' Hesperian tree;
To thirst for drink, and nectar still to draw;
To live accurs'd whom men hold blest to be,
And weep those wrongs which never creature saw:
If this be love, if love in these be founded,
My heart is love, for these in it are grounded.
See also:
Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris
Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia
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Elizabethan SonnetCycles Delia Diana Henry Constable Books Reviews
Samuel Daniel's "Delia" is the prototype of the Elizabethan sonnet sequence that Shakespeare was playing around with/parodying in his sonnets. Along with Sidney's sequence, it is probably the best example of the Elizabethan popular form; and includes a lot of very damned good poetry. The Edition works better than many it actually does reproduce the poems, and it preserves the line breaks, and the typos are kept within control [though not entirely eliminated]. Good job!
If this be love, to draw a weary breath,
To paint on floods till the shore cry to th'air;
With downward looks still reading on the earth.
These sad memorials of my love's despair;
If this be love, to war against my soul,
Lie down to wail, rise up to sigh and grieve,
The never-resting stone of care to roll,
Still to complain my griefs, whilst none relieve;
If this be love, to clothe me with dark thoughts,
Haunting untrodden paths to wail apart,
My pleasures horror, music tragic notes,
Tears in mine eyes and sorrow at my heart;
If this be love, to live a living death,
Then do I love, and draw this weary breath.
Samuel Daniel's Delia is certainly one of the best of all Elizabethan sonnet cycles; polished, tasteful, sometimes (one hopes) even sincere, although note well that 'Delia' is an anagram for 'Ideal.'
Constable is also a fine sonneteer. His penchant for 'conceits' (elaborate, even strained metaphors) looks forward to the 'metaphysical' poets of the next generation. I choose the sonnet below because it contrasts well with Daniel's, although both have more variety than one sonnet apiece can indicate
To live in hell, and heaven to behold;
To welcome life, and die a living death;
To sweat with heat, and yet be freezing cold;
To grasp at stars, and lie the earth beneath;
To treat a maze that never shall have end;
To burn in sighs, and starve in daily tears;
To climb a hill, and never to descend;
Giants to kill, and quake at childish fears;
To pine for food, and watch th' Hesperian tree;
To thirst for drink, and nectar still to draw;
To live accurs'd whom men hold blest to be,
And weep those wrongs which never creature saw
If this be love, if love in these be founded,
My heart is love, for these in it are grounded.
See also
Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Idea, Fidesa and Chloris
Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia
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