| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Diana | The Seventh Decade
Sonnet II. Fair Grace of Graces! Muse of Muses all! | | Henry Constable (1562–1613) |
| | | FAIR Grace of Graces! Muse of Muses all! | |
| Thou Paradise! thou only heaven I know! | |
| What influence hath bred my hateful woe, | |
| That I from thee and them, am forced to fall? | |
| Thou fallen from me, from thee I never shall, | 5 |
| Although my fortunes thou hast brought so low; | |
| Yet shall my faith and service with thee go! | |
| For live I do, on heaven and thee to call. | |
| Banish’d all grace, no Graces with me dwell; | |
| Compelled to muse, my Muses from me fly; | 10 |
| Excluded heaven, what can remain but hell? | |
| Exiled from Paradise, in hate I lie, | |
| Cursing my stars: albeit I find it true, | |
| I lost all these, when I lost love and you. | | | | |
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