| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet LXXXII. The Chariot, with the Steed is drawn along | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | THE CHARIOT, with the Steed is drawn along. | |
| Ships, winged with Winds, swift hover on the waves. | |
| The stubborn Ploughs are hauled with Oxen strong. | |
| Hard Adamant, the strongest Iron craves. | |
| But I am with thy beauty strongly forced; | 5 |
| Which, full of courage, draws me like the Steed. | |
| Those Winds, thy spirit; whence cannot be divorced. | |
| My heart the Ship, from danger never freed. | |
| That strong conceit on thy sweet beauty lade; | |
| The strong-necked Ox which draws my Fancy’s Plow, | 10 |
| Thine heart that Adamant, whose force hath made | |
| My strong desires stand subject unto you! | |
| Would I were Horse, Ox, Adamant, or Wind! | |
| Then had I never cared for Womankind. | | | | |
|
|
