Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles: Delia - Diana

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Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles: Delia Diana is a set of two sonnets by Henry Constable. was an English 16th century poet. Excerpt:"If that a loyal heart and faith unfeigned,If a sweet languish with a chaste desire,If hunger-starven thoughts so long retained,Fed but with smoke, and cherished but with fire;And if a brow with care's charàcters paintedBewray my love with broken words half spokenTo her which sits in my thoughts' temple sainted,And lays to view my vulture-gnawn heart open;If I have done due homage to her eyes,And had my sighs still tending on her name,If on her love my life and honour lies,And she, th'unkindest maid, still scorns the same;Let this suffice, that all the world may seeThe fault is hers, though mine the hurt must be."

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