| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet XCIX. This careful head, with divers thoughts distressed | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | THIS careful head, with divers thoughts distressed, | |
| My Fancy’s Chronicler! my Sorrow’s Muse! | |
| These watchful eyes, whose heedless aim I curse, | |
| Love’s Sentinels! and Fountains of Unrest! | |
| This tongue still trembling, Herald fit addressed | 5 |
| To my Love’s grief! (than any torment worse!) | |
| This heart, true Fortress of my spotless love, | |
| And rageous Furnace of my long desire! | |
| Of these, by Nature, am I not possessed | |
| (Though Nature, their first means in me did move) | 10 |
| But thou, dear Sweet! with thy love’s holy fire, | |
| My head, Grief’s Anvil made! with cares oppressed; | |
| Mine eyes, a Spring! my tongue, a Leaf wind-shaken! | |
| My heart, a wasteful Wilderness forsaken! | | | | |
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