| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Zepheria | | Canzon 8. Illuminating Lamps! Ye Orbs chrystallite! | | Anonymous |
| | | ILLUMINATING Lamps! Ye Orbs chrystallite! | |
| Transparent mirrolds! Globes divining beauty! | |
| How have I joyed to wanton in your light? | |
| Though was I slain by your artillery! | |
| Ye blithsome Stars! like LEDA’s lovely twins | 5 |
| (When clear they twinkle in the firmament), | |
| Promise esperance to the seamen’s wand’rings: | |
| So have your shine made ripe mine heart’s content. | |
| Or as the light, which Sestyan HERO showed, | |
| Arm-finned LEANDER to direct in waves, | 10 |
| When through the raging Hellespont he rowed, | |
| Steering to Love’s Port: so, by thine eyes’ clear rays, | |
| Blest were my waves! But since no light was found, | |
| Thy poor LEANDER in the deep is drowned! | | | | |
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