Sonnet I: Loving In Truth
by Sir Philip Sidney
Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show,
That she (dear She) might take some pleasure of my pain:
Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know,
Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain;
I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe,
Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertain:
Oft turning others’ leaves, to see if thence would flow
Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sun-burn’d brain.
But words came halting forth, wanting Invention’s stay,
Invention, Nature’s child, fled step-dame Study’s blows,
And others’ feet still seem’d but strangers in my way.
Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes,
Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite–
“Fool,” said my Muse to me, “look in thy heart and write.”
End of the poem
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- Ode by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Британишский – Быт
- Владимир Маяковский – Товарищ! Фронту помог ты… (РОСТА №444)
- Boris Godunov poem – Alexander Pushkin
- On A View Of Pasadena From The Hills by Yvor Winters
- Dropping Truth on That Pretty Little Head by Rob Leatherman Sr.
- A spirit sped by Stephen Crane
- Robert Burns: Highland Mary:
- Song of Medical Dick and Medical Davy by Oliver St. John Gogarty
- Николай Тихонов – И сказал женщине суд
- The First Lover
- Orlando Furioso canto 13 by Ludovico Ariosto
- The Lady’s Second Song by William Butler Yeats
- Children039s Eyes
- one_almost_might.html
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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.