| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet LXXXIII. Dark Night! Black Image of my foul Despair! | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | DARK Night! Black Image of my foul Despair! | |
| With grievous fancies, cease to vex my soul! | |
| With pain, sore smart, hot fires, cold fears, long care! | |
| (Too much, alas, this ceaseless stone to roll). | |
| My days be spent in penning thy sweet praises! | 5 |
| In pleading to thy beauty, never matched! | |
| In looking on thy face! whose sight amazes | |
| My Sense; and thus my long days be despatched. | |
| But Night (forth from the misty region rising), | |
| Fancies, with Fear, and sad Despair, doth send! | 10 |
| Mine heart, with horror, and vain thoughts agrising. | |
| And thus the fearful tedious nights I spend! | |
| Wishing the noon, to me were silent night; | |
| And shades nocturnal, turnèd to daylight. | | | | |
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