| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet LXXV. Love is a name too lovely for the god! | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | LOVE is a name too lovely for the god! | |
| He naked goes, red coloured in his skin, | |
| And bare, all as a boy fit for a rod. | |
| Hence into Afric! There, seek out thy kin | |
| Amongst the Moors! and swarthy men of Ind! | 5 |
| Me, thou, of joys and sweet content hast hindered! | |
| Hast thou consumed me! and art of my kind? | |
| Hast thou enraged me! yet art of my kindred? | |
| Nay, Ismarus, or Rhodope thy father! | |
| Or craggy Caucasus, thy crabbed sire! | 10 |
| Vesuvius, else? or was it Etna rather? | |
| For thou, how many dost consume with fire! | |
| Fierce tigers, wolves, and panthers gave thee suck! | |
| For lovely VENUS had not such evil luck! | | | | |
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