| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet LXXXIV. My sweet Parthenophe! within thy face | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | MY sweet PARTHENOPHE! within thy face, | |
| My Passions’ Calendar may plain be read! | |
| The Golden Number told upon thine head! | |
| The Sun days (which in card, I holy place, | |
| And which divinely bless me with their grace) | 5 |
| Thy cheerful Smiles, which can recall the dead! | |
| My Working days, thy Frowns, from favours fled! | |
| Which set a work the furies in my breast. | |
| These days are six to one more than the rest. | |
| My Leap Year is (O when is that Leap Year?) | 10 |
| When all my cares I overleap, and feast | |
| With her, fruition! whom I hold most dear. | |
| And if some Calendars, the truth tell me; | |
| Once in few years, that happy Leap shall be! | | | | |
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