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Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904.

Parthenophil and Parthenophe

Sonnet XCVI. The Sun in Pisces; Venus did intend

Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609)

THE SUN in Pisces; VENUS did intend

To seek sick FLORA; whose soil (since by Kind

TITAN to th’Antipodes, his beams resigned)

No pleasant flowers, to welcome her did send.

To whom, for need, PARTHENOPHE did lend

At Nature’s suit, rich Heliochrise, which shined

In her fair hair; white lilies which combined

With her high-smoothed brows, which bent, love bend.

Violets from eyes, sweet blushing eglantine

From her clear cheeks, and from her lips, sweet roses.

Thus VENUS’ Paradise was made divine

Which such, as Nature in my Lady closes.

Then, since with her, LOVE’s Queen was glorified!

Why was not my sweet Lady deified?