| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Diana | The First Decade
Sonnet V. Thine eye, the glass where I behold my heart | | Henry Constable (1562–1613) |
| | | THINE eye, the glass where I behold my heart. | |
| Mine eye, the window through the which thine eye | |
| May see my heart; and there thyself espy | |
| In bloody colours, how thou painted art! | |
| Thine eye, the pyle is of a murdering dart: | 5 |
| Mine eye, the sight thou tak’st thy level by | |
| To hit my heart, and never shoots awry. | |
| Mine eye thus helps thine eye to work my smart. | |
| Thine eye, a fire is both in heat and light; | |
| Mine eye, of tears a river doth become. | 10 |
| O that the water of mine eye had might | |
| To quench the flames that from thine eye doth come! | |
| Or that the fires kindled by thine eye, | |
| The flowing streams of mine eyes could make dry! | | | | |
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