| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Diana | The First Decade
Sonnet II. Blame not my heart for flying up too high! | | Henry Constable (1562–1613) |
| | | BLAME not my heart for flying up too high! | |
| Sith thou art cause that it this flight begun: | |
| For earthly vapours drawn up by the sun, | |
| Comets begin, and night suns in the sky. | |
| Mine humble heart, so with thy heavenly Eye | 5 |
| Drawn up aloft, all low desires doth shun: | |
| Raise then me up! as thou my heart hast done, | |
| So during night, in heaven remain may I. | |
| I say again, Blame not my high desire! | |
| Sith of us both the cause thereof depends: | 10 |
| In thee doth shine, in me doth burn a fire; | |
| Fire draws up other, and itself ascends. | |
| Thine eye a fire, and so draws up my love; | |
| My love a fire, and so ascends above. | | | | |
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