| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet L. So warble out your tragic notes of sorrow | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | SO warble out your tragic notes of sorrow, | |
| Black harp of liver-pining Melancholy! | |
| Black Humour, patron of my Fancy’s folly! | |
| Mere follies, which from Fancy’s fire, borrow | |
| Hot fire; which burns day, night, midnight, and morrow. | 5 |
| Long morning which prolongs my sorrows solely, | |
| And ever overrules my Passions wholly: | |
| So that my fortune, where it first made sorrow, | |
| Shall there remain, and ever shall it plow | |
| The bowels of mine heart; mine heart’s hot bowels! | 10 |
| And in their furrows, sow the Seeds of Love; | |
| Which thou didst sow, and newly spring up now | |
| And make me write vain words: no words, but Vowels! | |
| For nought to me, good Consonant would prove. | | | | |
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