| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part I. | | XXIV. For to behold my Sun, I from the sun | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | FOR to behold my Sun, I from the sun | |
| Did seek my face to shadow with my hand, | |
| To shield me from the heat, that ’gan to come | |
| In place, where gazing on her I did stand. | |
| But I no sooner from that sun was free, | 5 |
| But that, in that self instant and that time, | |
| I, of mine own Sun, found myself to be | |
| Burnt with the heat; a most unlucky sign. | |
| So whilst a shade from sun did me defend, | |
| A Sun more hot did hurt me in the end. | 10 | | | |
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