| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Madrigal 7. Youth’s wanton Spring, when in the raging Bull | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | YOUTH’s wanton Spring, when in the raging Bull | |
| My sun was lodged, gave store of flowers, | |
| With leaves of pleasure, stalks of hours; | |
| Which soon shaked off the leaves, when they were full | |
| Of pleasures, beauty dewed, with April showers. | 5 |
| My Summer love, whose buds were beautiful, | |
| Youthful desires, with heats unmerciful, | |
| Parched; whose seeds, when harvest time was come, | |
| Were cares, against my suits obdurate. | |
| With sheaves of scorn bound up, which did benumb | 10 |
| Mine heart with grief; yet made her heart indurate. | |
| O chaste desires, which held her heart immurate | |
| In walls of adamant unfoiled! | |
| My Winter spent in showers of sorrow’s tears! | |
| Hailstones of hatred! frosts of fears! | 15 |
| My branches bared of pleasure, and despoiled! | | | | |
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