| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part II. | | XXVII. The Blazing Star foretells the hapless fall | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | THE BLAZING Star foretells the hapless fall, | |
| And sudden death of others, soon to come. | |
| To me a Face, brighter than Comets all, | |
| Doth, with her looks, my fortune hard forerun; | |
| And with her shooting darts, from glancing eye, | 5 |
| Presageth that, ere long, I needs must die. | |
| The Blazing Star death only prophesies; | |
| This doth foreshew to me a harder fate: | |
| And dares me to mine end, in warlike wise; | |
| Nor how this Challenge know I to escape. | 10 |
| Ah, cruel Star! of death not only sign; | |
| But murderer th’ art of this poor life of mine. | | | | |
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