| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part II. | | VIII. Hark, Lovers! Hark, a strange miracle | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | HARK, Lovers! Hark, a strange miracle | |
| Of one, deprived of heart; yet death doth ’scape! | |
| Mine L. a flower gave me, which sweet did smell; | |
| And for the same, away my life did take. | |
| So that I only breathe through scent of flower; | 5 |
| And without heart, not without life, I live. | |
| Then is not this, of might LOVE his power | |
| A wonder strange? which he for sport doth give: | |
| When that a flower sustaineth me alone | |
| With life; who in my body, heart have none. | 10 | | | |
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