| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Parthenophil and Parthenophe | | Madrigal 19. Thy love’s conceits are wound about mine heart! | | Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| | | THY love’s conceits are wound about mine heart! | |
| Thy love itself within mine heart, a wound! | |
| Thy torches all a row stick, | |
| Which thy sweet grace about mine heart hath bound! | |
| There, gleaming arrows stick in every part, | 5 |
| Which unto my marrow prick. | |
| Thy beauty’s fancy to mine heart is thrall; | |
| Mine heart, thy beauty’s thrall is found! | |
| And thou mine heart a Bulwark art! | |
| Conquered by Beauty! battered to the ground! | 10 |
| And yet though conquered will not yield at all. | |
| For in that conflict, though I fall, | |
| Yet I myself a conqueror repute | |
| In fight continual, like victorious mart | |
| Yet ever yield, as ever overthrown. | 15 |
| To be, still, prisoner! is my suit. | |
| I will be, still, thy captive known! | |
| Such pleasing Servitude | |
| Victorious Conquest is, and Fortitude! | | | | |
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