| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part II. | | XV. The dusky cloud in sky, with shadow dark | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | THE DUSKY cloud in sky, with shadow dark, | |
| Doth cover oft the sun’s most clearest light: | |
| So as his beams we cannot see, nor mark; | |
| And he himself doth play at least in sight. | |
| Ah were I such a cloud on earth to cover | 5 |
| My sweetest Sun! as doth that cloud, the other. | |
| But if that cloud do vanish soon away, | |
| And doth as momentary pass and vade; | |
| Eternal would I be to hide her aye, | |
| And of a harder mixture would be made. | 10 |
| O happy I! O fortunate eclipse! | |
| With kissing so to darken those fair lips. | | | | |
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