| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Diana | The Sixth Decade
Sonnet VII. My Heart, mine Eye accuseth of his death | | Henry Constable (1562–1613) |
| | | MY Heart, mine Eye accuseth of his death. | |
| Saying, “His wanton sight bred his unrest:” | |
| Mine Eye affirms, “My Heart’s unconstant faith | |
| Hath been his bane, and all his joys represt.” | |
| My Heart avows, “Mine Eye let in the fire, | 5 |
| Which burns him with an everliving light.” | |
| Mine Eye replies, “My greedy Heart’s desire | |
| Let in those floods, which drown him day and night.” | |
| Thus wars my Heart, which Reason doth maintain, | |
| And calls my Eye to combat if he dare. | 10 |
| The whilst, my Soul, impatient of disdain, | |
| Wrings from his bondage unto death more near; | |
| Save that my love, still holdeth him in hand, | |
| “A kingdom thus divided, cannot stand!” | | | | |
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