Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.
ZepheriaCanzon 4. O then, Desire! Father of Jouissance!
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The Life of Love! the Death of dastard Fear!
The Kindest Nurse to true persèverance!
Mine heart inherited, with thy love’s revere.
Beauty! peculiar Parent of Conceit!
Prosperous Midwife to a travelling Muse!
The Sweet of life! N
Thee into me distilled, O Sweet, infuse!
Love then (the spirit of a generous sprite!
An infant ever drawing Nature’s breast!
The Sum of Life, that C
Dismissed mine heart from me, with thee to rest.
And now incites me cry, “Double! or quit!
Give back my heart, or take his body to it!”