| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet XLV. Sweet Beauty’s rose! in whose fair purple leaves | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | SWEET Beauty’s rose! in whose fair purple leaves, | |
| LOVE’s Queen, in richest ornament doth lie; | |
| Whose graces, were they not too sweet and high, | |
| Might here be seen, but since their sight bereaves | |
| All senses; he (that endless bottom weaves, | 5 |
| Which did PENELOPE) who that shall try, | |
| Then wonder, and in admiration die | |
| At Nature-passing Nature’s holy frame! | |
| Her beauty, thee revives! Thy Muse upheaves | |
| To draw celestial spirit from the skies! | 10 |
| To praise the Work and Worker whence it came! | |
| This spirit, drawn from heaven of thy fair eyes! | |
| Whose gilded cognizance, left in mine heart, | |
| Shews me thy faithful servant, to my smart! | | | | |
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