| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Chloris | | Sonnet XXIII. The Phœnix fair which rich Arabia breeds | | William Smith (fl. 1596) |
| | | THE PHŒNIX fair which rich Arabia breeds, | |
| When wasting time expires her tragedy; | |
| No more on PHŒBUS’ radiant rayes she feeds: | |
| But heapeth up great store of spicery; | |
| And on a lofty tow’ring cedar tree, | 5 |
| With heavenly substance, she herself consumes. | |
| From whence she young again appears to be, | |
| Out of the cinders of her peerless plumes. | |
| So I, which long have frièd in love’s flame, | |
| The fire, not made of spice, but sighs and tears, | 10 |
| Revive again, in hope Disdain to shame, | |
| And put to flight the author of my fears. | |
| Her eyes revive decaying life in me; | |
| Though they augmentors of my thraldom be. | | | | |
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