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Samuel Daniel - Sonnet XVI: Happy In Sleep
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Happy in sleep, waking content to languish, 
Embracing clouds by night; in daytime, mourn; 
All things I loath save her and mine own anguish, 
Pleas`d in my hurt inured to live forlorn. 
Nought do I crave but love, death, or my Lady, 
Hoarse with crying mercy, mercy yet my merit; 
So man vows and prayers e`er made I, 
That now at length t`yield, mere pity were it. 
But still the Hydra of my cares renewing, 
Revives new sorrows of her fresh disdaining; 
Still must I go the summer winds pursuing, 
Finding no end nor period of my paining. 
Wail all my life, my griefs do touch so nearly, 
And thus I live, because I love her dearly.
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