| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet XCVIII. The Sun, my Lady’s Beauty represents! | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | THE SUN, my Lady’s Beauty represents! | |
| Whose fiery-pointed beams each creature heats: | |
| Such force her grace, on whom it counterbeats, | |
| Doth practice; which the patient still torments. | |
| And to her virtues, the bright Moon assents; | 5 |
| With whose pure Chastity, my love she threats! | |
| Whose thought itself in her cool circle seats. | |
| And as the Moon, her bright habiliments, | |
| Of her bright brother PHŒBUS, borroweth; | |
| So from her beauty, doth her chaste desire, | 10 |
| Her brightness draw. For which, none dare aspire | |
| To tempt so rare a beauty. Yet forgive! | |
| He that, for thy sake! so long sorroweth, | |
| Cannot but longer love, if longer live! | | | | |
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