| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part II. | | XI. If April fresh doth kindly give us flowers | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | IF April fresh doth kindly give us flowers; | |
| September yields with more increase the fruit. | |
| Sweetest, you have in bosom, Beauty’s Bowers, | |
| Both these sweet tides: whence forth they always shoot | |
| Both flower and fruit. All only you, alone, | 5 |
| Can give me, when you please; or else can none. | |
| O dainty bosom, bosom rich in price, | |
| Surmounting mountains huge of beaten gold; | |
| Whose whiteness braves the whitest snow that lies | |
| On highest hills, whose height none can behold. | 10 |
| In you, my soul doth hope, without annoy, | |
| Both Spring and Harvest, one day to enjoy. Roma. | | | | |
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