| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet XLIV. O dart and thunder! whose fierce violence | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | O DART and thunder! whose fierce violence | |
| Surmounting Rhetoric’s dart and thunder bolts, | |
| Can never be set out in eloquence! | |
| Whose might all metals’ mass asunder moults! | |
| Where be the famous Prophets of old Greece? | 5 |
| Those ancient Roman poets of account? | |
| MUSÆUS, who went for the Golden Fleece | |
| With JASON, and did HERO’s love recount! | |
| And thou, sweet NASO, with thy golden verse; | |
| Whose lovely spirit ravished CÆSAR’s daughter! | 10 |
| And that sweet Tuscan, PETRARCH, which did pierce | |
| His LAURA with Love Sonnets, when he sought her! | |
| Where be all these? That all these might have taught her, | |
| That Saints divine, are known Saints by their mercy! | |
| And Saint-like beauty should not rage with pierce eye! | 15 | | | |
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