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
15 random poems
- on the edge of the seat by Raj Arumugam
- The Spring by Thomas Carew
- Николай Заболоцкий – Народный дом
- Westward on the High-Hilled Plains poem – A. E. Housman
- Ольга Берггольц – Феодосия
- The Cap And Bells by William Butler Yeats
- The Coach Of Life poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Hope, An Allegorical Sketch by William Lisle Bowles
- Василий Тредиаковский – О коль мне тамо сладка веселия было
- Константин Батюшков – Мои пенаты
- At Last She Comes by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Владимир Высоцкий – Она была в Париже
- Silence by Riju Dave
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Недоверчивость
- Sweet Colonnade by Vasil Slavov
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.