Astrophel and Stella: LXXI
by Sir Philip Sidney
Who will in fairest book of nature know
How virtue may best lodg’d in beauty be,
Let him but learn of love to read in thee,
Stella, those fair lines which true goodness show.
There shall he find all vices’ overthrow,
Not by rude force, but sweetest sovereignty
Of reason, from whose light those night-birds fly;
That inward sun in thine eyes shineth so.
And, not content to be perfection’s heir
Thyself, dost strive all minds that way to move,
Who mark in thee what is in thee most fair.
So while thy beauty draws thy heart to love,
As fast thy virtue bends that love to good:
But “Ah,” Desire still cries, “Give me some food!”
End of the poem
15 random poems
- News For The Delphic Oracle by William Butler Yeats
- Robert Burns: The Minstrel At Lincluden:
- Владимир Набоков – Расстрел
- Bleäke’s House In Blackmwore by William Barnes
- Midsummer Mobile by Sylvia Plath
- Early Love
- Михаил Лермонтов – Хоть давно изменила мне радость
- Алексей Толстой – Средь шумного бала, случайно
- I Swear by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Robert Burns: Ode, Sacred To The Memory Of Mrs. Oswald Of Auchencruive:
- A Rhyme About an Electrical Advertising Sign by Vachel Lindsay
- Vo’k A-Comèn Into Church by William Barnes
- Girl’s Song by William Butler Yeats
- The Lamp by Sara Teasdale
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
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Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) was an English courtier, statesman, soldier, diplomat, writer, and patron of scholars and poets. He was a godson of Philip II of Spain. Sir Philip Sidney was considered the ideal gentleman of his day. He is also one of the most important poets of the Elizabethan Era.