| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Diana | The First Decade
Sonnet III. Fly low, dear love! thy sun dost thou not see? | | Henry Constable (1562–1613) |
| | | FLY low, dear love! thy sun dost thou not see? | |
| Take heed! do not so near his rays aspire! | |
| Lest (for thy pride, inflamed with wreakful ire) | |
| It burn thy wings, as it hath burnèd me. | |
| Thou, haply, sayst, “Thy wings immortal be, | 5 |
| And so cannot consumèd be with fire: | |
| The one is Hope, the other is Desire; | |
| And that the heavens bestowed them both on thee.” | |
| A Muse’s words made thee with Hope to fly; | |
| An Angel’s face Desire hath begot; | 10 |
| Thyself engendered by a goddess’ eye: | |
| Yet for all this, immortal thou art not! | |
| Of heavenly eye though thou begotten art: | |
| Yet art thou born but of a mortal heart! | | | | |
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