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Some Longer Elizabethan Poems

by A. H. Bullen

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Sonnet

OE here behold these tributarie Teares
 Paid to thy faire, but cruell tyrant Eyes;
 Loe here the blossome of my youthfull yeares,
 Nipt with the fresh of thy Wraths winter, dyes,

 Here on Loues Altar I doo offer vp
This burning hart for my Soules sacrifice;
Here I receaue this deadly-poysned Cu[p]
Of Circe charm’d; wherein deepe Magicke lyes.

 Then Teares (if thou be happie Teares indeed),
And Hart (if thou be lodged in his brest),
And Cup (if thou canst helpe despaire with speed);
Teares, Hart, and Cup conjoyne to make me blest:
 Teares moue, Hart win, Cup cause, ruth, loue, desire,
 In word, in deed, by moane, by zeale, by fire.

FINIS

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