| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet XXXIV. But when, in May, my world’s bright fiery sun | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | BUT when, in May, my world’s bright fiery sun | |
| Had past in Zodiac, with his golden team, | |
| To place his beams, which in the Twins begun: | |
| The blazing twin stars of my world’s bright beam, | |
| My Mistress’ Eyes! mine heaven’s bright Sun and Moon! | 5 |
| The Stars by which, poor Shepherd I, am warned | |
| To pin in late, and put my flocks out soon; | |
| My flocks of Fancies, as the signs me learned: | |
| Then did my love’s first Spring begin to sprout, | |
| So long as my sun’s heat in these signs reigned. | 10 |
| But wandering all the Zodiac throughout, | |
| From her May’s twins, my sun such heat constrained: | |
| That where, at first, I little had complained; | |
| From Sign to Sign, in such course he now posteth! | |
| Which, daily, me, with hotter flaming toasteth. | 15 | | | |
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