| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Phillis | | Sonnet XXXIV. I would in rich and golden-coloured rain | | Thomas Lodge (1558–1625) |
| | | I WOULD in rich and golden-coloured rain, | |
| With tempting showers in pleasant sort descend | |
| Into fair Phillis’ lap, my lovely friend, | |
| When sleep her sense with slumber doth restrain. | |
| I would be changèd to a milk-white bull, | 5 |
| When midst the gladsome field she should appear, | |
| By pleasant fineness to surprise my dear, | |
| Whilst from their stalks, she pleasant flowers did pull. | |
| I were content to weary out my pain, | |
| To be Narcissus so she were a spring, | 10 |
| To drown in her those woes my heart do ring, | |
| And more; I wish transformèd to remain, | |
| That whilst I thus in pleasure’s lap did lie, | |
| I might refresh desire, which else would die. | | | | |
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