| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Phillis | | Sonnet II. You sacred sea-nymphs pleasantly disporting | | Thomas Lodge (1558–1625) |
| | | YOU sacred sea-nymphs pleasantly disporting | |
| Amidst this wat’ry world, where now I sail; | |
| If ever love, or lovers sad reporting, | |
| Had power sweet tears from your fair eyes to hail; | |
| And you, more gentle-hearted than the rest, | 5 |
| Under the northern noon-stead sweetly streaming | |
| Lend those moist riches of your crystal crest, | |
| To quench the flames from my heart’s Ætna streaming; | |
| And thou, kind Triton, in thy trumpet relish | |
| The ruthful accents of my discontent, | 10 |
| That midst this travel desolate and hellish, | |
| Some gentle wind that listens my lament | |
| May prattle in the north in Phillis’ ears: | |
| “Where Phillis wants, Damon consumes in tears.” | | | | |
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