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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 XXI.

SONNET XXXIIII.

SONNET XXXVIII.

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 XXI.

[Yea but vncertaine hopes, are anchors feeble]

Yea but vncertaine hopes, are anchors feeble
When such faint-harted pilates guide my shippes,
Of all my fortunes ballist with hard peeble
Whose doubtfull viadge proues not worth two chippes
If when but one darke cloud shall dimme the skie
The cables of hopes happinesse be cut,

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When barke with thoughtes drown'd marriners shall lye
Prest for the whirle poole of greeses endlesse glutte.
If well thou meane (Parthenophe) then rauishe
Mine hart with doubtlesse hope of mutuall loue,
If otherwise, then, let thy tong runne lauishe:
For this, or that, am I resoulu'd to proue,
And both, or either extasie, shall moue
Me rauish't, end with surfet of releefe:
Or sencelesse daunted dye, with soddeine greefe.