| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet LXXXVII. Burn on, sweet Fire! For I live by that fuel | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | BURN on, sweet Fire! For I live by that fuel, | |
| Whose smoke is as an incense to my soul! | |
| Each sigh prolongs my smart. Be fierce and cruel, | |
| My fair PARTHENOPHE! Frown and control! | |
| Vex! torture! scald! disgrace me! Do thy will! | 5 |
| Stop up thine ears! With flint, immure thine heart! | |
| And kill me with thy looks, if they would kill! | |
| Thine eyes (those crystal phials which impart | |
| The perfect balm to my dead-wounded breast!) | |
| Thine eyes, the quivers, whence those darts were drawn, | 10 |
| Which me, to thy love’s bondage have addresst. | |
| Thy smile, and frown! night star, and daylight’s dawn! | |
| Burn on! Frown on! Vex! Stop thine ears! Torment me! | |
| More, for thy beauty borne! would not repent me. | | | | |
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