| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Phillis | | Sonnet XIX. Thou tyrannising monarch that dost tire | | Thomas Lodge (1558–1625) |
| | | THOU tyrannising monarch that dost tire | |
| My love-sick heart through those assaulting eyes, | |
| That are the lamps which lighten my desire! | |
| If nought but death thy fury may suffice, | |
| Not for my peace, but for thy pleasure be it, | 5 |
| That Phillis, wrathful Phillis, that repines me | |
| All grace but death, may deign to come and see it, | |
| And seeing grieve at that which she assigns me. | |
| This only boon for all my mortal bane | |
| I crave and cry for at thy mercy seat: | 10 |
| That when her wrath a faithful heart hath slain, | |
| And soul is fled, and body reft of heat, | |
| She might perceive how much she might command | |
| That had my life and death within her hand. | | | | |
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