| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet CIII. I slept, when (underneath a laurel shade | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | I SLEPT, when (underneath a laurel shade, | |
| My face upreared aloft unto the heaven) | |
| Methought I heard this spoken in a sweaven, | |
| “Nature, on earth, Love’s miracle hath made!” | |
| With this, methought, upon a bank was laid | 5 |
| An earthly body which was framed in heaven, | |
| To whom, such graces (by the Graces given) | |
| Sweet music in their several organs played. | |
| In chief, the silent music of her eye | |
| Softly recorded, with heaven’s harmony, | 10 |
| Drew down URANIA from celestial sphere; | |
| Who mazed, at mazy turning of her ey’n, | |
| (To make Divine perfection) glazed there | |
| Those eyes, with clearest substance crystalline. | | | | |
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