| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Diana | The Fifth Decade
Sonnet VI. I am no model figure, or sign of Care | | Henry Constable (1562–1613) |
| | | I AM no model figure, or sign of CARE; | |
| But his eternal heart’s-consuming essence: | |
| In whom grief’s commentaries written are, | |
| Drawing gross passion into pure quintessence. | |
| Not thine eye’s fire; but fire of thine eye’s disdain, | 5 |
| Fed by neglect of my continual grieving, | |
| Attracts the true life’s spirit of my pain; | |
| And gives it thee; which gives me no relieving. | |
| Within thine arms, sad elegies I sing. | |
| Unto thine eyes, a true heart love-torn lay I. | 10 |
| Thou smell’st from me, the savours sorrows bring. | |
| My tears to taste my truth, to touch display I. | |
| Lo thus, each sense, dear Fair One! I importune: | |
| But being CARE, thou flyest me as ILL FORTUNE! | | | | |
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