| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Phillis | | Sonnet XXXVI. If so I seek the shades, I presently do see | | Thomas Lodge (1558–1625) |
| | | IF so I seek the shades, I presently do see | |
| The god of love forsakes his bow and sit me by; | |
| If that I think to write, his Muses pliant be, | |
| If so I plain my grief, the wanton boy will cry, | |
| If I lament his pride, he doth increase my pain; | 5 |
| If tears my cheeks attaint, his cheeks are moist with moan; | |
| If I disclose the wounds the which my heart hath slain, | |
| He takes his fascia off, and wipes them dry anon. | |
| If so I walk the woods, the woods are his delight, | |
| If I myself torment, he bathes him in my blood; | 10 |
| He will my soldier be if once I wend to fight, | |
| If seas delight, he steers my bark amidst the flood. | |
| In brief, the cruel god doth never from me go, | |
| But makes my lasting love eternal with my woe. | | | | |
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