| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet LXXVI. Be blind, mine Eyes! which saw that stormy frown | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | BE blind, mine Eyes! which saw that stormy frown. | |
| Wither, long-watering Lips! which may not kiss. | |
| Pine, Arms! which wished-for sweet embraces miss. | |
| And upright parts of pleasure! fall you down. | |
| Waste, wanton tender Thighs! Consume for this; | 5 |
| To her thigh-elms, that you were not made vines! | |
| And my long pleasure in her body grafted. | |
| But, at my pleasure, her sweet thought repines. | |
| My heart, with her fair colours, should be wafted | |
| Throughout this ocean of my deep despair: | 10 |
| Why do I longer live? but me prepare | |
| My life, together with my joys, to finish! | |
| And, long ere this, had I died, with my care; | |
| But hope of joys to come, did all diminish. | | | | |
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