| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet LVI. The Dial! love, which shews how my days spend | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | THE DIAL! love, which shews how my days spend. | |
| The leaden Plummets sliding to the ground! | |
| My thoughts, which to dark melancholy bend. | |
| The rolling Wheels, which turn swift hours round! | |
| Thine eyes, PARTHENOPHE! my Fancy’s guide. | 5 |
| The Watch, continually which keeps his stroke! | |
| By whose oft turning, every hour doth slide; | |
| Figure the sighs, which from my liver smoke, | |
| Whose oft invasions finish my life’s date. | |
| The Watchman, which, each quarter, strikes the bell! | 10 |
| Thy love, which doth each part exanimate; | |
| And in each quarter, strikes his forces fell. | |
| That Hammer and great Bell, which end each hour! | |
| Death, my life’s victor, sent by thy love’s power. | | | | |
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