| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet XXIII. When, with the Dawning of my first delight | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | WHEN, with the Dawning of my first delight, | |
| The Daylight of love’s Delicacy moved me; | |
| Then from heaven’s disdainful starry light, | |
| The Moonlight of her Chastity reproved me. | |
| Her forehead’s threatful clouds from hope removed me, | 5 |
| Till Midnight reared on the mid-noctial line; | |
| Her heart whiles Pity’s slight had undershoved me, | |
| Then did I force her downward to decline | |
| Till Dawning daylight cheerfully did shine; | |
| And by such happy revolution drew | 10 |
| Her Morning’s blush to joyful smiles incline. | |
| And now Meridian heat dries up my dew; | |
| There rest, fair Planets! Stay, bright orbs of day! | |
| Still smiling at my dial, next eleven! | | | | |
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