Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.
Parthenophil and ParthenopheSonnet LX. Whilst some, the Trojan wars in verse recount
Barnabe Barnes (1569?1609)W
And all the Grecian conquerors in fight;
Some, valiant Roman wars ’bove stars do mount,
With all their warlike leaders, men of might:
Whilst some, of British A
And register the praise of C
And some, of doughty G
And some, the German broils, and wars of Spain:
In none of those, myself I wounded find,
Neither with horseman, nor with man on foot;
But from a clear bright eye, one Captain blind
(Whose puissance to resist, did nothing boot)
With men in golden arms, and darts of gold,
Wounded my heart, and all which did behold!