| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Ode 3. Upon a holy Saintès Eve | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | UPON a holy Saintès Eve | |
| As I took my pilgrimage, | |
| Wand’ring through the forest wary, | |
| Blest be that holy Saint! | |
| I met the lovely Virgin, MARY! | 5 |
| And kneelèd, with long travel faint, | |
| Performing my due homage. | |
| My tears foretold my heart did grieve, | |
| Yet MARY would not me relieve! | |
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| Her I did promise, every year, | 10 |
| The firstling female of my flock; | |
| That in my love she would me further. | |
| (I curst the days of my first love, | |
| My comfort’s spoils, my pleasures’ murder.) | |
| She, She, alas, did me reprove! | 15 |
| My suits, as to a stony rock, | |
| Were made; for she would not give ear: | |
| Ah love! dear love! love bought too dear! | |
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| MARY, my Saint chaste and mild! | |
| Pity, ah, pity my suit! | 20 |
| Thou art a virgin, pity me! | |
| Shine eyes, though pity wanting; | |
| That she, by them, my grief may see! | |
| And look on mine heart panting! | |
| But her deaf ears, and tongue mute, | 25 |
| Shews her hard heart unreconciled! | |
| Hard heart, from all remorse exiled! | | | | |
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