Astrophel and Stella: XLI
by Sir Philip Sidney
Having this day my horse, my hand, my lance
Guided so well that I obtain’d the prize,
Both by the judgment of the English eyes
And of some sent from that sweet enemy France;
Horsemen my skill in horsemanship advance,
Town folks my strength; a daintier judge applies
His praise to sleight which from good use doth rise;
Some lucky wits impute it but to chance;
Others, because of both sides I do take
My blood from them who did excel in this,
Think Nature me a man of arms did make.
How far they shot awry! The true cause is,
Stella look’d on, and from her heav’nly face
Sent forth the beams which made so fair my race.
End of the poem
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- Robert Burns: Birthday Ode For 31st December, 1787:
- The Other Half by Shaunna Harper
- Birds heavenly by Sunil Sharma
- “Behold Vale! I Said, When I Shall Con” by William Wordsworth
- Poetry and the Power of Words
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мне в душу ступит кто-то посторонний
- Humankind – How Limitless In Genius by Michael Levy
- Marine Snow At Mid-Depths And Down by Thomas Lux
- Drying Their Wings by Vachel Lindsay
- Sonnet 16: But wherefore do not you a mightier way by William Shakespeare
- Robert Burns: Their Groves O’Sweet Myrtle :
- Dejection: An Ode by Samuel Coleridge
- Ольга Берггольц – Воспоминание (И вот в лицо пахнуло земляникой)
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
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.