| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Diana | The Sixth Decade
Sonnet VI. Forgive me, Dear! for thundering on thy name | | Henry Constable (1562–1613) |
| | | FORGIVE me, Dear! for thundering on thy name; | |
| Sure ’tis thyself that shows my love distrest. | |
| For fire exhaled, in freezing clouds possest, | |
| Warring for way, makes all the heavens exclaim. | |
| Thy beauty so, the brightest living flame, | 5 |
| Wrapt in my cloudy heart, by winter prest, | |
| Scorning to dwell within so base a nest, | |
| Thunders in me thy everlasting flame. | |
| O that my heart might still contain that fire! | |
| Or that the fire would always light my heart! | 10 |
| Then should’st thou not disdain my true desire, | |
| Or think I wronged thee, to reveal to my smart: | |
| For as the fire through freezing clouds doth break; | |
| So, not myself, but thou in me would’st speak. | | | | |
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