| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet XLVI. Ah, pierce-eye piercing eye, and blazing light! | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | AH, pierce-eye piercing eye, and blazing light! | |
| Of thunder, thunder blazes burning up! | |
| O sun, sun melting! blind, and dazing sight! | |
| Ah, heart! down-driving heart, and turning up! | |
| O matchless beauty, Beauty’s beauty staining! | 5 |
| Sweet damask rosebud! VENUS’ rose of roses! | |
| Ah, front imperious, duty’s duty gaining! | |
| Yet threatful clouds did still inclose and closes. | |
| O lily leaves, when JUNO lily’s leaves | |
| In wond’ring at her colours’ grain distained! | 10 |
| Voice, which rock’s voice and mountain’s hilly cleaves | |
| In sunder, at my loves with pain complained! | |
| Eye, lightning sun! Heart, beauty’s bane unfeigned! | |
| O damask rose! proud forehead! lily! voice! | |
| Ah, partial fortune! sore chance! silly choice! | 15 | | | |
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