| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet XXX. So this continual fountain of my Tears | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | SO this continual fountain of my Tears, | |
| From that hard rock of her sweet beauty trickling; | |
| So shall my Tongue on her love’s music tickling; | |
| So shall my Passions, fed with hopes and fears; | |
| So shall mine Heart, which wearing, never wears, | 5 |
| But soft, is hardened with her beauty’s prickling; | |
| On which; Despair, my vulture seized, stands pickling | |
| Yet never thence his maw full gorgèd bears; | |
| Right so, my Tears, Tongue, Passions, Heart, Despair; | |
| With floods, complaints, sighs, throbs, and endless sorrow; | 10 |
| In seas, in volumes, winds, earthquakes, and hell; | |
| Shall float, chant, breathe, break, and dark mansion borrow! | |
| And, in them, I be blessed for my Fair; | |
| That in these torments, for her sake I dwell. | | | | |
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