| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Diana | The Sixth Decade
Sonnet IV. Astronomers the heavens do divide | | Henry Constable (1562–1613) |
| | | ASTRONOMERS the heavens do divide | |
| Into eight Houses, where the god remains; | |
| All which in thy perfections do abide! | |
| For in thy feet, the Queen of Silence reigns; | |
| About thy waist, JOVE’s Messenger doth dwell, | 5 |
| Inchanting me, as I thereat admire; | |
| And on thy dugs, the Queen of Love doth tell, | |
| Her godhead’s power in scrolls of my desire; | |
| Thy beauty is the world’s eternal Sun; | |
| Thy favours force a coward’s heart to dare, | 10 |
| And in thy hairs, JOVE and his riches won; | |
| Thy frowns hold SATURN; thine eyes the Fixèd Stars. | |
| Pardon me then, Divine! to love thee well; | |
| Since thou art heaven: and I, in heaven would dwell. | | | | |
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