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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 LXXIII.

SONNET LXXIIII.

SONNET LXXVIII.

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 LXXIII.

[Why did rich nature graces graunt to thee]

Why did rich nature graces graunt to thee,
Since thou art such a niggard of thy grace?
Or how can graces in thy body bee
Where neither they, nor pittie finde a place?

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Ah they bene handmaydes to thy bewties furie,
Making thy face to tyrannise on men.
Condemn'd before thy bewtie by loues Iurie,
And by thy frownes adiudg'd to sorrowes den
Graunt me some grace, for thou with grace art wealthie
And kindely mayst afforde some gratious thing,
Mine hopes all as my minde weake and vnhealthie,
All her lookes gratious, yet no grace do bring
To me poore wretche, yet be the graces theare:
But I the furies in my brest doe beare.