Classic Poem

Sonet. II.

Phaebe looke downe, and here behold in mee,
The elements within thy sphere in closed,
How kindly Nature plac'd them under thee,
And in my world, see how they are disposed;
My hope is earth, the lowest, cold and dry,
The grosser mother of deepe melancholie,
Water my teares, coold with humidity,
Wan, flegmatick, inclind by nature wholie;
My sighs, the ayre, hote, moyst, ascending hier,
Subtile of sanguine, dy'de in my harts dolor,
My thoughts, they be the element of fire,
Hote, dry, and percing, still inclind to choller,
Thine eye the Orbe unto all these, from whence,
Proceeds th'effects of powerfull influence.