| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet XII. Vext with th’assaults of thy conceivèd beauty | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | VEXT with th’assaults of thy conceivèd beauty, | |
| I restless, on thy favours meditate! | |
| And though despairful love, sometimes, my suit tie | |
| Unto these faggots (figures of my state), | |
| Which bound with endless line, by leisure wait | 5 |
| That happy moment of your heart’s reply! | |
| Yet by those lines I hope to find the gate; | |
| Which, through love’s labyrinth, shall guide me right. | |
| Whiles (unacquainted exercise!) I try | |
| Sweet solitude, I shun my life’s chief light! | 10 |
| And all because I would forget thee quite. | |
| And (working that) methinks, it’s such a sin | |
| (As I take pen and paper for to write) | |
| Thee to forget; that leaving, I begin! | | | | |
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