| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Zepheria | | Canzon 9. When as the Golden Waggoner had frayed | | Anonymous |
| | | WHEN as the Golden Waggoner had frayed | |
| Black Winter’s outrage, with his brighter shine; | |
| And that in Mansion of the Twins he styed, | |
| His team; then ’gan my heart to twine with thine! | |
| Even when his gorgeous mantle he had spread, | 5 |
| Wherewith he wiped wept-tears from TELLUS’ bosom; | |
| Wantoning here with her, leaves THETIS’ bed, | |
| Like dainty midwife FLORA, to unwomb | |
| Sweet babes of TELLUS and HYPERION, | |
| When ye full soomed in Winter’s mew doon mooting, | 10 |
| O then, the seeds of Love, by thine eyes sown, | |
| Down through mine eyes, within mine heart took rooting. | |
| This difference left ’twixt me and Nature’s store; | |
| Her Spring returns! My flower may spread no more! | | | | |
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