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Parthenophil and Parthenophe

Sonnettes, Madrigals, Elegies and Odes [by Barnabe Barnes]

Barnes, Barnabe (1569?-1609)

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[Go barstard Orphan packe thee hence]

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SONNET XXXIIII.

SONNET XXXVIII.

SONNET LXXIIII.

SONNET LXXVIII.

SONNET LXXXII.

SONNET LXXXIII.

SONNET LXXXIIII.

SONNET LXXXVII.

SONNET LXXXVIII.

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ELEGIE V. To Parthenophil.

THE FIRST EIDILLION of moschus describing Loue.

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ODES PASTORALL.

CARMEN ANACREONTIVM.

ODE 20. ASCLEPIAD.

TO THE RIGHT NOBLE Lord, Henry Earle of Northumberland.

TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE MOST renowned and valiant, Robert Earle of Essex, and Ewe, &c.

TO THE RIGHT NOBLE AND VERtuous Lord, Henry Earle of Southampton.

TO THE MOST VERTVOVS LEARned and bewtifull Lady Marie Countesse of Penbrooke.

TO THE RIGHT VERTVOVS AND most bewtifull Lady the Lady Straunge.

TO THE BEAVTIFVLL LADY THE Lady Brigett Manners.

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SONNET LXXXII.

[The chariot with the steed is drawne along]

The chariot with the steed is drawne along,
Shippes wing'd with windes, swift houer on the waues:
The stubborne plowes are hayl'd with Oxen strong,
Hard Adamant the strongest yron craues:
But I am with thy bewtie strongly forc'd,
Which (full of courage) drawes me like the steede:
Those windes thy spirite, whence cannot be diuorc'd,
Mine hart the shippe, from danger neuer free'd:

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That strong conceipt on thy sweet bewtie lade,
The strong neck't Oxe, which drawes my fancies plow:
Thine hart that Adamant, whose force hath made
My strong desiers, stand subiect vnto you.
Would I were horse, oxe, Adamante, or winde:
Than had I neuer car'd, for woman-kinde.