Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.
Parthenophil and ParthenopheSonnet XCVI. The Sun in Pisces; Venus did intend
Barnabe Barnes (1569?1609)T
To seek sick F
T
No pleasant flowers, to welcome her did send.
To whom, for need, P
At Nature’s suit, rich Heliochrise, which shined
In her fair hair; white lilies which combined
With her high-smoothed brows, which bent, love bend.
Violets from eyes, sweet blushing eglantine
From her clear cheeks, and from her lips, sweet roses.
Thus V
Which such, as Nature in my Lady closes.
Then, since with her, L
Why was not my sweet Lady deified?