Sonnet XXXII: Like as the Spotless Ermelin

Samuel Daniel 1562 (Taunton) – 1619



To M. P.

Like as the spotless Ermelin distress'd,
Circumpass'd round with filth and loathsome mud,
Pines in her grief, imprison'd in her nest,
And cannot issue forth to seek her good,
So I environ'd with a hateful want
Look to the heav'ns, the heav'ns yield forth no grace;
I search the earth, the earth I find as scant;
I view my self, my self in woeful case.
Heav'n nor earth will not, my self cannot work
A way through want to free my soul from care;
But I must pine, and in my pining lurk,
Lest my sad looks bewray me how I fare.
My fortune mantled with a cloud s'obscure
Thus shades my life so long as wants endure.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme X AXAXXBXBCDCDEE
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 627
Words 123
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 1, 14

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