How long shall I in mine affliction mourn, <br />A burden to myself, distress'd in mind? <br />When shall my interdicted hopes return <br />From out despair wherein they live confin'd? <br />When shall her troubled brow charg'd with disdain <br />Reveal the treasure which her smiles impart? <br />When shall my faith the happiness attain <br />To break the ice that hath congeal'd her heart? <br />Unto herself, herself my love doth summon, <br />If love in her hath any power to move, <br />And let her tell me as she is a woman <br />Whether my faith hath not deserv'd her love. <br />I know she cannot but must needs confess it, <br />Yet deigns not with one simple sign t'express it.<br /><br />Samuel Daniel<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-xlix-how-long/
