| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part II. | | XIV. When first the sun did shine upon her eyes | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | WHEN first the sun did shine upon her eyes, | |
| Who fairest ’mongst her beauteous sex doth show; | |
| The heavens her dainty corpse, in courteous wise, | |
| Covered with chilly cold and whitest snow. | |
| She, through the nature of that humour cold, | 5 |
| Both coldest Ice, at once, and purest White | |
| Draws to herself. Then none, for strange should hold; | |
| Though, to me, fair and cruel is her sight: | |
| Since that the heavens, for favours, did impart | |
| A snow-white corpse to her, and frozen heart. | 10 | | | |
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