| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Zepheria | | Canzon 33. Hither, chaste Phœbe’s Nymphs flocked in procession | | Anonymous |
| | | HITHER, chaste PHŒBE’s Nymphs flocked in procession, | |
| Whose beauties attractive all eyes so exercised | |
| With mazed-admire, that, for some late transgression, | |
| Men weened heaven’s angels were unparadised. | |
| Such saints, heaven’s paradise contains but few, | 5 |
| Their roseate beauties, Nature’s wealth distained; | |
| Compared their lustre, checked her verdant hue, | |
| They even her purest quintessence engrained. | |
| Anemone there stood with Daffodilly! | |
| The purple Hyacinth, and the musk Rose! | 10 |
| Red Amaranthus, and the milk-bred Lily! | |
| I came in quest; yet would I none of those! | |
| Unto HYPERION’s bride, my choice I knit! | |
| There, in her goldy leaves, my love is writ! | | | | |
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