| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet XVIII. Write! write! help! help, sweet Muse! and never cease! | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | WRITE! write! help! help, sweet Muse! and never cease! | |
| In endless labours, pens and paper tire! | |
| Until I purchase my long wished Desire. | |
| Brains, with my Reason, never rest in peace! | |
| Waste breathless words! and breathful sighs increase! | 5 |
| Till of my woes, remorseful, you espy her; | |
| Till she with me, be burnt in equal fire. | |
| I never will, from labour, wits release! | |
| My senses never shall in quiet rest; | |
| Till thou be pitiful, and love alike! | 10 |
| And if thou never pity my distresses; | |
| Thy cruelty, with endless force shall strike | |
| Upon my wits, to ceaseless writs addrest! | |
| My cares, in hope of some revenge, this lesses. | | | | |
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