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
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- How Distant by Philip Larkin
- Desert Places by Robert Frost
- Николай Гумилев – Норвежские горы
- Anterotics by William Ernest Henley
- In Praise of Songs that Die by Vachel Lindsay
- Morning Poem #39 by Wanda Phipps
- In Thoughtless Mind by Satish Verma
- The Boy by Vinko Kalinić
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- The Douglas Tragedy poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Carrion Comfort poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Martin’s Tide by William Barnes
- One Whisper of the Beloved by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
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Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
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.