| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet XXIV. These, mine heart-eating Eyes do never gaze | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | THESE, mine heart-eating Eyes do never gaze | |
| Upon thy sun’s harmonious marble wheels, | |
| But from these eyes, through force of thy sun’s blaze, | |
| Rain tears continual, whiles my faith’s true steels, | |
| Tempered on anvil of thine heart’s cold Flint, | 5 |
| Strike marrow-melting fire into mine eyes; | |
| The Tinder, whence my Passions do not stint | |
| As Matches to those sparkles which arise. | |
| Which, when the Taper of mine heart is lighted, | |
| Like salamanders, nourish in the flame: | 10 |
| And all the Loves, with my new Torch delighted, | |
| Awhile, like gnats, did flourish in the same; | |
| But burnt their wings, nor any way could frame | |
| To fly from thence, since JOVE’s proud bird (that bears | |
| His thunder) viewed my sun; but shed down tears. | 15 | | | |
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