| Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. 1845. | | | | Sonnet LXXX | | V. Barnaby Barnes |
| | | A BLAST of winde, a momentarie breath, | |
| A watrie bubble simbolizde with ayre, | |
| A sunne-blown rose, but for a season fayre, | |
| A ghostly glaunce, a skeleton of death, | |
| A morning-dew perling the grasse beneath, | 5 |
| Whose moysture sunne’s appearance doth impaire; | |
| A lightning glimse, a muse of thought and care, | |
| A planet’s shot, a shade which followeth, | |
| A voice which vanisheth so soone as heard, | |
| The thriftlesse heire of time, a rowling wave, | 10 |
| A shewe no more in action than regard, | |
| A masse of dust, world’s momentarie slave, | |
| Is Man, in state of our olde Adam made, | |
| Soone borne to die, soone flourishing to fade. | | | | |
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