Parthenophil and Parthenophe | ||
SONNET LI.
[Lame consonants of member-vowells robbed]
Lame consonants of member-vowells robbedWhat perfect-sounding wordes can you compose
Wherein you might my sorrowes flame disclose?
Can you frame mamed wordes as you had throbbed?
Can you with sighes make signes of passions sobbed?
Or can your characters make sorrowes showes?
Can liquids make them? I with teares make those,
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Could mutes procure good wordes mute would I bee,
But then who should my sorrowes image paint?
No consonants or mutes or liquids will
Set out my sorrowes, tho with greefe I faint:
If with no letter but one vowell should bee,
An A. with H. my Sonnet would fulfill.
Parthenophil and Parthenophe | ||