| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Fidessa | | Sonnet XXXVI. O let my heart, my body, and my tongue | | Bartholomew Griffin (d. 1602) |
| | | O LET my heart, my body, and my tongue | |
| Bleed forth the lively streams of faith unfeigned! | |
| Worship my saint, the gods and saints among! | |
| Praise and extol her fair, that me hath pained! | |
| O let the smoke of my suppressed Desire, | 5 |
| Raked up in ashes of my burning breast, | |
| Break out at length, and to the clouds aspire, | |
| Urging the heavens t’afford me rest! | |
| But let my body naturally descend | |
| Into the bowels of our common mother! | 10 |
| And to the very centre let it wend, | |
| When it no lower can, her griefs to smother! | |
| And yet when I so low do buried lie; | |
| Then shall my love ascend unto the sky! | | | | |
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