Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.
Parthenophil and ParthenopheSonnet XLVI. Ah, pierce-eye piercing eye, and blazing light!
Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609)A
Of thunder, thunder blazes burning up!
O sun, sun melting! blind, and dazing sight!
Ah, heart! down-driving heart, and turning up!
O matchless beauty, Beauty’s beauty staining!
Sweet damask rosebud! V
Ah, front imperious, duty’s duty gaining!
Yet threatful clouds did still inclose and closes.
O lily leaves, when J
In wond’ring at her colours’ grain distained!
Voice, which rock’s voice and mountain’s hilly cleaves
In sunder, at my loves with pain complained!
Eye, lightning sun! Heart, beauty’s bane unfeigned!
O damask rose! proud forehead! lily! voice!
Ah, partial fortune! sore chance! silly choice!