Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.
DianaIntroductory: Unto Her Majestys sacred honourable Maids
Richard SmithE
Perpetual advocates in heaven and earth!
Fair, chaste, immaculate, and all divine;
Glorious alone, before the first man’s birth:
Your twofold C
Bow your sun-rising eyes, planets of joy,
Upon these Orphan Poems! in whose rights
C
If pitiful, you shun the Song of Death;
Or fear the stain of love’s life-dropping blood;
O know then, you are pure; and purer faith
Shall still keep white the flower, the fruit, and bud.
L
All things in him, and he in you shall love.