| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet XLIX. Cool! cool in waves, thy beams intolerable | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | COOL! cool in waves, thy beams intolerable, | |
| O sun! No son, but most unkind stepfather! | |
| By law, nor Nature, Sire; but rebel rather! | |
| Fool! fool! these labours are inextricable; | |
| A burden whose weight is importable; | 5 |
| A Siren which, within thy breast, doth bathe her; | |
| A Fiend which doth, in Graces’ garments grath her; | |
| A fortress, whose force is impregnable; | |
| From my love’s ’lembic, still ’stilled tears. O tears! | |
| Quench! quench mine heat! or, with your sovereignty, | 10 |
| Like NIOBE, convert mine heart to marble! | |
| Or with fast-flowing pine, my body dry, | |
| And rid me from Despair’s chilled fears! O fears, | |
| Which on mine heben harp’s heartstrings do warble! | | | | |
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