| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Fidessa | | Sonnet II. How can that piercing crystal-painted eye | | Bartholomew Griffin (d. 1602) |
| | | HOW can that piercing crystal-painted eye, | |
| That gave the onset to my high aspiring, | |
| Yielding each look of mine a sweet reply, | |
| Adding new courage to my heart’s desiring? | |
| How can it shut itself within her ark, | 5 |
| And keep herself and me both from the light; | |
| Making us walk in all misguiding dark, | |
| Aye to remain, in confines of the night? | |
| How is it that so little room contains it, | |
| (That guides the Orient, as the world, the Sun) | 10 |
| Which once obscured, most bitterly complains it, | |
| Because it knows and rules whate’er is done. | |
| The reason is, that they may dread her sight, | |
| Who doth both give, and take away their light. | | | | |
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