| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | The Tears of Fancie | | Sonnet LV. My loue more bright than Cinthias horned head | | Thomas Watson (1555–1592) |
| | | MY loue more bright than Cinthias horned head, | |
| That spreads her wings to beautifie the heauens | |
| When Titan coucheth in his purple bed, | |
| Thou liuest by Titan and inioiest his beames. | |
| Shee flies when he begins to run his race, | 5 |
| And hides her head, his beautie staines her brightnes: | |
| Thou staiest, thy beautie yeelds the sunne no place, | |
| For thou excelst his beames in glories sweetnes. | |
| Shee hath eclips, thou neur doest eclips, | |
| Shee sometimes wanes, thy glorie still doth waxe: | 10 |
| None but Endymyon hangeth at her lips, | |
| Thy beautie burnes the world as fire doth flaxe. | |
| Shee shines by months, thou houres, months, and yeares | |
| Oh that such beautie should inforce such teares. | | | | |
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