Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg
Henry Constable Diana Sonnet V
Henry Constable's Diana sonnets are basically in Shakespearean form,
using the scheme ABBA·ABBA·CDCD·EE
Henry Constable's "Diana" sonnet V
THINE eye, the glasse where I behold my heart,
Mine eye, the window through the which thine eye
May see my heart, and there thy selfe espy
In bloody colours how thou painted art.
Thine eye the pyke is of a murdering dart,
Mine eye the sight thou tak’st thy levell by
To hit my heart, and never shoot'st awry:
Mine eye thus helpes thine eye to worke my smart,
Thine eye a fire is both in heate and light:
Mine eye, of teares a river doth become.
Oh, that the water of mine eye had might
To quench the flames that from thine eye doth come;
Or that the fire that's kindled by thine eye
The flowing streames of mine eyes could make drye.
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