Delia XLVI: Let others sing of knights and paladines

Samuel Daniel 1562 (Taunton) – 1619



XLVI
    Let others sing of knights and paladines
   In aged accents and untimely words;
   Paint shadows in imaginary lines
   Which well the reach of their high wits records:
   But I must sing of thee, and those fair eyes
   Authentic shall my verse in time to come,
   When yet th' unborn shall say, "Lo where she lies
   Whose beauty made him speak that else was dumb."
   These are the arks, the trophies I erect,
  That fortify thy name against old age;
  And these thy sacred virtues must protect
  Against the dark, and time's consuming rage.
  Though th' error of my youth they shall discover,
  Suffice they show I liv'd and was thy lover.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABBBBBCBCDEDEFF
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 644
Words 115
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 15

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