| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Madrigal 25. Whiles these two wrathful goddesses did rage | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | WHILES these two wrathful goddesses did rage, | |
| The little god of might | |
| (Such as might fitter seem with cranes to fight, | |
| Than, with his bow, to vanquish gods and kings) | |
| In a cherry tree sat smiling; | 5 |
| And lightly waving, with his motley wings, | |
| (Fair wings, in beauty! boys and girls beguiling!) | |
| And cherry garlands, with his hands compiling: | |
| Laughing, he leaped light | |
| Unto the Nymph, to try which way best might | 10 |
| Her cheer; and, with a cherry branch, he bobbed! | |
| But her soft lovely lips, | |
| The cherries, of their ruddy ruby robbed! | |
| Eftsoons, he, to his quiver skips | |
| And brings those bottles, whence his mother sips | 15 |
| Her Nectar of Delight; | |
| Which in her bosom, claimèd place by right. | | | | |
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