| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part III. | | XVI. The golden tresses of a Lady fair | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | THE GOLDEN tresses of a Lady fair; | |
| At first beginning were of this my love: | |
| But now, at last, unto my double care, | |
| To be the end of my sad life I prove. | |
| Then did my doubtful spirit live in hope: | 5 |
| But now he fears, despairing as it were, | |
| Because he doth perceive in sudden broke | |
| His hope, which dying heart did help and bear; | |
| Since that the hair, that Alpha me did bind | |
| In love, of life the Omega I do find. | 10 | | | |
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