| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Diana | The Seventh Decade
Sonnet VIII. As draws the golden Meteor of the day | | Henry Constable (1562–1613) |
| | | AS draws the golden Meteor of the day | |
| Exhaled matter, from the ground to heaven; | |
| And by his secret nature, there to stay | |
| The thing fast held, and yet of hold bereaven; | |
| So by th’attractive excellence and might, | 5 |
| Born to the power of thy transparent eyes, | |
| Drawn from myself, ravished with thy delight, | |
| Whose dumb conceits divinely Sirenise, | |
| Lo, in suspense of fear and hope upholden, | |
| Diversely poised with passions that pain me: | 10 |
| No resolution dares my thoughts embolden, | |
| Since ’tis not I, but thou that dost sustain me. | |
| O if there’s none but thou can work my woe; | |
| Wilt thou be still unkind, and kill me so? | | | | |
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