| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet XCIV. Forth from mine eyes, with full tide, flows a river | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | FORTH from mine eyes, with full tide, flows a river; | |
| And in thine eyes, two sparkling chrysolites. | |
| Mine eye, still covet to behold those lights. | |
| Thine eye, still filled with arrows, is LOVE’s Quiver! | |
| Through mine eye, thine eyes’ fire inflames my liver. | 5 |
| Mine eyes, in heart, thine eyes’ clear fancies write; | |
| Thus is thine eye to me, my fancies giver! | |
| Which from thine eyes, to mine eyes take their flight. | |
| Then pierce the secret centre of my heart; | |
| And feed my fancies with inflamèd fuel! | 10 |
| This only grieves! Mine eyes had not that art | |
| Thine to transpierce: thy nature was so cruel! | |
| But eyes and fancies, in this, triumph make; | |
| That they were blind and raging, for her sake! | | | | |
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