| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part II. | | XXIX. Amongst the Parthians is a kind of ground | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | AMONGST the Parthians is a kind of ground | |
| Of nature such as, though it far doth stand | |
| From fire: yet fire to take it straight is found; | |
| And flying thither, burns it out of hand. | |
| This prey so sure of Love am I, fair Dame! | 5 |
| And you to me, which burneth me, the flame. | |
| So that if I, to you far off do show; | |
| You kindle straight in me a quenchless fire: | |
| And yet, although within it burn me so, | |
| Sweet is the heat whose fuel is desire. | 10 |
| For rather I, in fire near you would be: | |
| Than freed from flame, you farther off to see. | | | | |
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