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SONNET: 12 by RICHARD BARNFIELD

First Line: SOME TALKE OF GANYMEDE TH' IDALIAN BOY
Last Line: BUT HE IS FAIRER THEN I CAN INDITE.
Subject(s): GAYS & LESBIANS; HOMOEROTICISM; LESBIANS; GAY WOMEN; GAY MEN;

Some talke of Ganymede th'Idalian Boy,
And some of faire Adonis make their boast,
Some talke of him whom lovely Laeda lost,
And some of Ecchoes love that was so coy.
They speake by heere-say, I of perfect truth,
They partially commend the persons named,
And for them, sweet Encomions have framed:
I onely t'him have sacrifiz'd my youth.
As for those wonders of antiquitie,
And those whom later ages have inioy'd,
(But ah what hath not cruell death destroide?
Death, that envies this worlds felicitie),
They were (perhaps) lesse faire then Poets write.
But he is fairer then I can indite.



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