| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Madrigal 8. Why am I thus in mind and body wounded? | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | WHY am I thus in mind and body wounded? | |
| O mind, and body mortal, and divine! | |
| On what sure rock is your fort grounded? | |
| On death? Ah, no! For at it, you repine! | |
| Nay, both entombed in her beauty’s shrine | 5 |
| Will live, though shadow-like; that men astounded | |
| At their anatomies, when they shall view it, | |
| May pitifully rue it. | |
| Yea, but her murdering beauty doth so shine, | |
| (O yet much merciless!) | 10 |
| That heart desires to live with her, that slew it! | |
| And though She still rest pitiless, | |
| Yet, at her beauty, will I wonder! | |
| Though sweet graces (past repeat) | |
| Never appear, but when they threat; | 15 |
| Firing my secret heart, with dart and thunder. | | | | |
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