| Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. 1845. | | | | Sonnet XXXI | | V. Barnaby Barnes |
| | | O GLORIOUS Patrone of eternall blisse! | |
| Victorious Conqueror of Hell and Death! | |
| Oh that I had whole westerne windes of breath! | |
| My voice and tongue should not be so remisse; | |
| My notes should not be so rare and demisse: | 5 |
| But everie river, forrest, hill, and heath, | |
| Should eccho forth his praise; and underneath | |
| The world’s foundations sound that it is His! | |
| Hee which did place the world’s foundations; | |
| Hee which did make the sunne, the moone, and starres; | 10 |
| Who with his bloud redeem’d all nations, | |
| And, willing, none from Paradise debarres:— | |
| Shall not all instruments and voices sounde | |
| His glories, which in all these things abounde? | | | | |
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