| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet LXXXVI. O Fiery Rage! when wilt thou be consumed? | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | O FIERY Rage! when wilt thou be consumed? | |
| Thou, that hast me consumed, in such sort | |
| As never was, poor wretch! (which so presumed) | |
| But for surveying of that beauteous Fort! | |
| Kept in continual durance, and enchained | 5 |
| With hot desires, which have my body pined; | |
| My mind, from pleasures and content restrained; | |
| My thoughts, to Care, and Sorrow’s Ward assigned: | |
| There, with continual melancholy placed, | |
| In dismal horror, and continual fear, | 10 |
| I pass these irksome hours! scorned and disgraced | |
| Of her; whose cruelty no breast can bear! | |
| No thought endure! no tortures can outmatch! | |
| Then burn on, Rage of Fire! but me despatch! | | | | |
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