| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Diana | The Seventh Decade
Sonnet III. What viewed I, Dear! when I, thine eyes beheld? | | Henry Constable (1562–1613) |
| | | WHAT viewed I, Dear! when I, thine eyes beheld? | |
| Love in his glory? No, him THYRSIS saw, | |
| And stood the boy! whilst he, his darts did draw; | |
| Whose painted pride to baser swains he telled. | |
| Saw I two suns? That sight is seen but seld. | 5 |
| Yet can their brood that teach the holy law | |
| Gaze on their beams, and dread them not a straw; | |
| Where princely looks are by their eyes repelled. | |
| What saw I then? Doubtless it was, AMEN! | |
| Armed with strong thunder and a lightning’s flame; | 10 |
| Who, bridegroom like, with power was riding then, | |
| Meaning that none should see him when he came. | |
| Yet did I gaze; and thereby caught the wound | |
| Which burns my heart, and keeps my body sound. | | | | |
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