| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet LIX. Ah me! sweet beauty lost, returns no more | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | AH me! sweet beauty lost, returns no more. | |
| And how I fear mine heart fraught with disdain! | |
| Despair of her disdain, casts doubt before; | |
| And makes me thus of mine heart’s hope complain. | |
| Ah, me! nor mine heart’s hope, nor help. Despair! | 5 |
| Avoid my Fancy! Fancy’s utter bane! | |
| My woes’ chief worker! Cause of all my care! | |
| Avoid my thoughts! that Hope may me restore | |
| To mine heart’s heaven, and happiness again! | |
| Ah, wilt thou not? but still depress my thought! | 10 |
| Ah, Mistress! if thy beauty, this hath wrought, | |
| That proud disdainfulness shall in thee reign: | |
| Yet, think! when in thy forehead wrinkles be; | |
| Men will disdain thee, then, as thou dost me! | | | | |
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