| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Fidessa | | Sonnet XXIX. Earth! take this earth wherein my spirits languish! | | Bartholomew Griffin (d. 1602) |
| | | EARTH! take this earth wherein my spirits languish! | |
| Spirits, leave this earth that doth in griefs retain! | |
| Griefs, chase this earth, that it may fade with anguish! | |
| Spirits, avoid these furies which do pain you! | |
| O leave your loathsome prison! Freedom, gain you! | 5 |
| Your essence is divine! Great is your power! | |
| And yet you moan your wrongs and sore complain you, | |
| Hoping for joy, which fadeth every hour! | |
| O Spirits, your prison loathe, and freedom gain you! | |
| The Destinies, in deep laments, have shut you, | 10 |
| Of mortal hate! because they do disdain you! | |
| And yet of joy that they in prison put you. | |
| Earth, take this earth with thee to be enclosed! | |
| Life is to me, and I to it, opposed! | | | | |
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