| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Sonnet CI. Had I been banished from the native soil | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | HAD I been banished from the native soil, | |
| Where, with my life, I first receivèd light! | |
| For my first cradles, had my tomb been dight! | |
| Or changed my pleasure for a ceaseless toil! | |
| Had I for nurse, been left to lion’s spoil! | 5 |
| Had I for freedom, dwelt in shady night, | |
| Cooped up in loathsome dungeons from men’s sight! | |
| These first desires, which in my breast did boil, | |
| From which, thy loves (Unkind!) thou banishèd! | |
| Had not been such an exile to my bliss. | 10 |
| If life, with my love’s infancy, were vanishèd; | |
| It had not been so sore a death as this, | |
| If lionesses were, instead of nurses; | |
| Or night, for day! Thine hate deserves more curses! | | | | |
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