| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Laura—Part III. | | XL. When I did part, my soul did part from me | | Robert Tofte (1561–1620) |
| | | WHEN I did part, my soul did part from me; | |
| And took his Farewell of thy beauteous ey’n: | |
| But now that I, returned, do thee see; | |
| He is returned, and lives through kindness thine: | |
| And of thee looketh for a Welcome Home. | 5 |
| I then, not any more, to sorrow need; | |
| Now I am come: and if before, alone, | |
| On Shadow then; on Substance how I feed. | |
| So if my parting bitter was and sad: | |
| Sweet ’s my return to thee, and passing glad. | 10 | | | |
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