| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Fidessa | | Sonnet XXXVII. Fair is my love that feeds among the lilies | | Bartholomew Griffin (d. 1602) |
| | | FAIR is my love that feeds among the lilies, | |
| The lilies growing in that pleasant garden | |
| Where Cupid’s Mount, that well beloved hill is, | |
| And where that little god, himself is Warden. | |
| See where my Love sits in the beds of spices! | 5 |
| Beset all round with camphor, myrrh, and roses. | |
| And interlaced with curious devices | |
| Which, her from all the world apart incloses. | |
| There, doth she tune her Lute for her delight! | |
| And with sweet music makes the ground to move; | 10 |
| Whilst I, poor I, do sit in heavy plight, | |
| Wailing alone my unrespected love. | |
| Not daring rush into so rare a place, | |
| That gives to her, and she to it, a grace. | | | | |
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