| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Phillis | | Sonnet XL. Resembling none, and none so poor as I | | Thomas Lodge (1558–1625) |
| | | RESEMBLING none, and none so poor as I, | |
| Poor to the world, and poor in each esteem, | |
| Whose first-born loves at first obscured did die, | |
| And bred no fame but flame of base misdeem, | |
| Under the ensign of whose tirèd pen, | 5 |
| Love’s legions forth have masked, by others masked; | |
| Think how I live wrongèd by ill-tongued men, | |
| Not master of myself, to all wrongs tasked! | |
| Oh thou that canst, and she that may do all things, | |
| Support these languishing conceits that perish! | 10 |
| Look on their growth; perhaps these silly small things | |
| May win this worthy palm, so you do cherish. | |
| Homer hath vowed, and I with him do vow this, | |
| He will and shall revive, if you allow this. | | | | |
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