| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Diana | The Second Decade
Sonnet X. Fair Sun! if you would have me praise your light | | Henry Constable (1562–1613) |
| | | FAIR Sun! if you would have me praise your light, | |
| When night approacheth, wherefore do you fly? | |
| Time is so short, beauties so many be, | |
| As I have need to see them day and night; | |
| That by continual view, my verses might | 5 |
| Tell all the beams of your divinity: | |
| Which praise to you, and joy should be to me; | |
| You living by my verse, I by your sight! | |
| I by your sight, and not you by my verse, | |
| Need mortal skill immortal praise rehearse? | 10 |
| No, no, though eyes were blind, and verse were dumb, | |
| Your beauty should be seen, and your fame known. | |
| For by the wind which from my sighs do come, | |
| Your praises round about the world are blown. | | | | |
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