| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Diana | | Introductory: Unto Her Majesty’s sacred honourable Maids | | Richard Smith |
| | | ETERNAL TWINS! that conquer Death and Time, | |
| Perpetual advocates in heaven and earth! | |
| Fair, chaste, immaculate, and all divine; | |
| Glorious alone, before the first man’s birth: | |
| Your twofold CHARITES! celestial lights! | 5 |
| Bow your sun-rising eyes, planets of joy, | |
| Upon these Orphan Poems! in whose rights | |
| CONCEIT first claimed his birthright to enjoy. | |
| If pitiful, you shun the Song of Death; | |
| Or fear the stain of love’s life-dropping blood; | 10 |
| O know then, you are pure; and purer faith | |
| Shall still keep white the flower, the fruit, and bud. | |
| LOVE moveth all things. You that love, shall move | |
| All things in him, and he in you shall love. | | | | |
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