| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Zepheria | | Canzon 5. Anon, Fear (Sentinel of sad Discretion! | | Anonymous |
| | | ANON, Fear (Sentinel of sad Discretion! | |
| Strangling Repentance in his cradle age! | |
| Care’s Usher! Tenant to his own Oppression!) | |
| Forced my thoughts’ quest upon an idle rage. | |
| Enraged Passion (Scout to Love untrue!) | 5 |
| Commenting glosses on each smile and frown, | |
| Christening the heavens and Erebus anew, | |
| (Intolerable yoke to Love and Reason! | |
| Footstool to all affects! Beauty’s sour handmaid! | |
| The heart’s hermaphrodite, passive in action!) | 10 |
| Hope now serenes his brow, anon dismayed, | |
| A pleasing death, a life in pleased distraction. | |
| Thou on thy Mother, Fear! begot Despair; | |
| To whom, my Fate conveys me son and heir. | | | | |
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