| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet LXV. O that I had no heart! as I have none | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | O THAT I had no heart! as I have none. | |
| (For thou, mine heart’s full spirit hast possessed!) | |
| Then should mine Argument be not of moan! | |
| Then under Love’s yoke, should I not be pressed! | |
| O that without mine eyes I had been born! | 5 |
| Then had I not my Mistress’ beauty viewed! | |
| Then had I never been so far forlorn! | |
| Then had I never wept! Then, never rued! | |
| O that I never had been born at all! | |
| Or being, had been born of shepherds’ brood! | 10 |
| Then should I not in such mischances fall! | |
| Quiet, my water; and Content, my food! | |
| But now disquieted, and still tormented; | |
| With adverse fate, preforce, must rest contented! | | | | |
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