| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet XCVI. The Sun in Pisces; Venus did intend | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | THE SUN in Pisces; VENUS did intend | |
| To seek sick FLORA; whose soil (since by Kind | |
| TITAN to th’Antipodes, his beams resigned) | |
| No pleasant flowers, to welcome her did send. | |
| To whom, for need, PARTHENOPHE did lend | 5 |
| At Nature’s suit, rich Heliochrise, which shined | |
| In her fair hair; white lilies which combined | |
| With her high-smoothed brows, which bent, love bend. | |
| Violets from eyes, sweet blushing eglantine | |
| From her clear cheeks, and from her lips, sweet roses. | 10 |
| Thus VENUS’ Paradise was made divine | |
| Which such, as Nature in my Lady closes. | |
| Then, since with her, LOVE’s Queen was glorified! | |
| Why was not my sweet Lady deified? | | | | |
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