| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part II. | | XXIII. Two winds, one calm, another fierce, to see | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | TWO winds, one calm, another fierce, to see; | |
| Th’ one of the Spring, of Winter th’ other right: | |
| I plainly, Lady, do discern in thee! | |
| The first, which makes me joy, breathes from thy sight | |
| Such dainty flowers, in diverse coloured show, | 5 |
| As makes to blush Dame IRIS’s rainy bow. | |
| The second, which makes me to pine away, | |
| Blows from thine inward breast, a deadly blast; | |
| Where doth eternal hardness always stay, | |
| Which I do see eternal aye to last. | 10 |
| So as calm ZEPHYRUS, in face, thou art! | |
| But rough as boisterous BOREAS, in thine heart. | | | | |
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