| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Diana | The Sixth Decade
Sonnet I. One sun unto my life’s day gives true light | | Henry Constable (1562–1613) |
| | | ONE sun unto my life’s day gives true light. | |
| One moon dissolves my stormy night of woes. | |
| One star my fate and happy fortune shows. | |
| One saint I serve, one shrine with vows I dight. | |
| One sun transfix’d, hath burnt my heart outright. | 5 |
| One moon opposed, my love in darkness throws. | |
| One star hath bid my thoughts my wrongs disclose. | |
| Saints scorn poor swains, shrines do my vows no right. | |
| Yet if my love be found a holy fire, | |
| Pure, unstained, without idolatry; | 10 |
| And she, nathless, in hate of my desire, | |
| Lives to repose her in my misery. | |
| My sun! my moon! my star! my saint! my shrine! | |
| Mine be the torment, but the guilt be thine! | | | | |
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