| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet LXXX. Long-wished for Death! sent by my Mistress’ doom | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | LONG-WISHED for Death! sent by my Mistress’ doom; | |
| Hold! Take thy prisoner, full resolved to die! | |
| But first as chief, and in the highest room, | |
| My Soul, to heaven I do bequeath on high; | |
| Now ready to be severed from Thy love! | 5 |
| My Sighs, to air! to crystal springs, my Tears! | |
| My sad Complaints (which Thee could never move! | |
| To mountains desolate and deaf! My Fears, | |
| To lambs beset with lions! My Despair, | |
| To night, and irksome dungeons full of dread! | 10 |
| Then shalt Thou find (when I am past this care) | |
| My torments, which thy cruelties have bred, | |
| In heavens, clouds, springs, hard mountains, lambs, and night: | |
| Here, once united; then, dissevered quite. | | | | |
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