Astrophel And Stella-Sonnet XXXI
by Sir Philip Sidney
With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb’st the skies!
How silently, and with how wan a face!
What! may it be that even in heavenly place
That busy archer his sharp arrows tries?
Sure, if that long-with-love-acquainted eyes
Can judge of love, thou feel’st a lover’s case:
I read it in thy looks; thy languished grace,
To me that feel the like, thy state descries.
Then even of fellowship, O Moon, tell me,
Is constant love deemed there but want of wit?
Are beauties there as proud as here they be?
Do they above love to be loved, and yet
Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess?
Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Владимир Набоков – Кинематораф
- Dinner Date by P.J.Reed
- Don’t Worry by John Oxenham
- Владимир Маяковский – Ты знаешь это вот… (Главполитпросвет №267)
- Владимир Высоцкий – Я верю в нашу общую звезду
- Battle Stars
- Николай Гербель – Ура, объявлена война
- Ring Out Your Bells by Sir Philip Sidney
- They Thought Her Crazy by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Toward Salvation
- Владимир Маяковский – Перекопский энтузиазм
- The Goring by Sylvia Plath
- Алишер Навои – Уже белеет голова
- Константин Бальмонт – Черные вороны
- Leaving Early by Sylvia Plath
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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.