| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet XLVII. Give me my Heart! For no man liveth heartless! | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | GIVE me my Heart! For no man liveth heartless! | |
| And now deprived of heart, I am but dead, | |
| (And since thou hast it; in his tables read! | |
| Whether he rest at ease, in joys and smartless? | |
| Whether beholding him, thine eyes were dartless? | 5 |
| Or to what bondage, his enthralment leads?) | |
| Return, dear Heart! and me, to mine restore! | |
| Ah, let me thee possess! Return to me! | |
| I find no means, devoid of skill and artless. | |
| Thither return, where thou triumphed before! | 10 |
| Let me of him but repossessor be! | |
| And when thou gives to me mine heart again; | |
| Thyself, thou dost bestow! For thou art She, | |
| Whom I call Heart! and of whom, I complain. | | | | |
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