| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Phillis | | Sonnet XI. My frail and earthly bark, by reason’s guide | | Thomas Lodge (1558–1625) |
| | | MY frail and earthly bark, by reason’s guide, | |
| Which holds the helm, whilst will doth wield the sail, | |
| By my desires, the winds of bad betide, | |
| Hath sailed these worldly seas with small avail, | |
| Vain objects serve for dreadful rocks to quail | 5 |
| My brittle boat from haven of life that flies | |
| To haunt the sea of mundane miseries. | |
| My soul that draws impressions from above, | |
| And views my course, and sees the winds aspire, | |
| Bids reason watch to ’scape the shoals of love; | 10 |
| But lawless will enflamed with endless ire | |
| Doth steer empoop, whilst reason doth retire. | |
| The streams increase; love’s waves my bark do fill; | |
| Thus are they wracked that guide their course by will. | | | | |
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