| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet XXII. From thine heart’s ever burning Vestal fire | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | FROM thine heart’s ever burning Vestal fire, | |
| The torchlight of two suns is nourished still; | |
| Which, in mild compass, still surmounting higher, | |
| Their orbs, which circled harmony fulfil; | |
| Whose rolling wheels run on meridian’s line, | 5 |
| And turning, they turn back the misty night. | |
| Report of which clear wonder did incline | |
| Mine eyes to gaze upon that uncouth light. | |
| On it till I was sunburnt, did I gaze! | |
| Which with a fervent agony possessed me; | 10 |
| Then did I sweat, and swell; mine eyes daze | |
| Till that a burning fever had oppressed me: | |
| Which made me faint. No physic hath repressed me; | |
| For I try all! yet, for to make me sound, | |
| Ay, me! no grass, nor physic may be found. | 15 | | | |
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