| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet LXIX. The leafless branches of the lifeless boughs | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | THE LEAFLESS branches of the lifeless boughs, | |
| Carve Winter’s outrage in their withered barks: | |
| The withered wrinkles in my careful brows, | |
| Figure from whence they drew those crooked marks! | |
| Down from the Thracian mountains, oaks of might | 5 |
| And lofty firs, into the valley fall: | |
| Sure sign where BOREAS hath usurped his right; | |
| And that, long there, no Sylvans dally shall. | |
| Fields, with prodigious inundations drowned; | |
| For NEPTUNE’s rage, with AMPHITRITE weep. | 10 |
| My looks and Passions likewise shew my wound; | |
| And how some fair regard did strike it deep. | |
| These branches, blasted trees, and fields so wat’red; | |
| For wrinkles, sighs, and tears, foreshew thine hatred! | | | | |
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