| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Madrigal 11. Thine Eyes, mine heaven! (which harbour lovely rest | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | THINE Eyes, mine heaven! (which harbour lovely rest, | |
| And with their beams all creatures cheer) | |
| Stole from mine eyes their clear; | |
| And made mine eyes dim mirrolds of unrest. | |
| And from her lily Forehead, smooth and plain, | 5 |
| My front, his withered furrows took; | |
| And through her grace, his grace forsook. | |
| From soft Cheeks, rosy red, | |
| My cheeks their leanness, and this pallid stain. | |
| The Golden Pen of Nature’s book, | 10 |
| (For her Tongue, that task undertook!) | |
| Which to the Graces’ Secretory led, | |
| And sweetest Muses, with sweet music fed, | |
| Inforced my Muse, in tragic tunes to sing: | |
| But from her heart’s hard frozen string, | 15 |
| Mine heart his tenderness and heat possest. | | | | |
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