Astrophel and Stella: XXXIII by Sir Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella: XXXIII by Sir Philip Sidney I might!–unhappy word–O me, I might, And then would not, or could not, see my bliss; Till now wrapt in a most infernal night, I find how heav’nly day, wretch! I did miss. Heart, rend thyself, thou dost thyself but right; No lovely Paris made thy Helen […]
Astrophel and Stella: XX by Sir Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella: XX by Sir Philip Sidney Fly, fly, my friends, I have my death wound, fly! See there that boy, that murd’ring boy, I say, Who, like a thief, hid in dark bush doth lie Till bloody bullet get him wrongful prey. So tyrant he no fitter place could spy, Nor so fair […]
Astrophel and Stella: XV by Sir Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella: XV by Sir Philip Sidney You that do search for every purling spring Which from the ribs of old Parnassus flows, And every flower, not sweet perhaps, which grows Near thereabouts, into your poesy wring; Ye that do dictionary’s method bring Into your rimes, running in rattling rows; You that poor Petrarch’s […]
Astrophel and Stella: XLI by Sir Philip Sidney
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 […]
Astrophel and Stella: XCII by Sir Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella: XCII by Sir Philip Sidney Be your words made, good sir, of Indian ware, That you allow me them by so small rate? Or do you cutted Spartans imitate? Or do you mean my tender ears to spare, That to my questions you so total are? When I demand of Phœnix Stella’s […]
Astrophel and Stella VII: WhenNature Made her Chief Work by Sir Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella VII: WhenNature Made her Chief Work by Sir Philip Sidney When Nature made her chief work, Stella’s eyes, In colour black why wrapt she beams so bright? Would she in beamy black, like painter wise, Frame daintiest lustre, mix’d of shades and light? Or did she else that sober hue devise, In […]
Astrophel And Stella-Sonnet XXXI by Sir Philip Sidney
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 […]
Astrophel And Stella-Sonnet LIV by Sir Philip Sidney
Astrophel And Stella-Sonnet LIV by Sir Philip Sidney Because I breathe not love to every one, Nor do not use set colours for to wear, Nor nourish special locks of vowed hair, Nor give each speech a full point of a groan, The courtly nymphs, acquainted with the moan Of them who in their lips […]
Astrophel And Stella; Sonnet CVIII by Sir Philip Sidney
Astrophel And Stella; Sonnet CVIII by Sir Philip Sidney When Sorrow, using mine own fire’s might, Melts down his lead into my boiling breast, Through that dark furnace to my heart oppressed, There shines a joy from thee, my only light: But soon as thought of thee breeds my delight, And my young soul flutters […]
Astrophel and Stella LXXXIV: HIGHWAY by Sir Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella LXXXIV: HIGHWAY by Sir Philip Sidney Highway, since you my chief Parnassus be, And that my Muse, to some ears not unsweet, Tempers her words to trampling horses’ feet More oft than to a chamber melody. Now, blessed you bear onward blessed me To her, where I my heart, safe-left, shall meet: […]
Astrophel and Stella: LXXI by Sir Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella: LXXI by Sir Philip Sidney Who will in fairest book of nature know How virtue may best lodg’d in beauty be, Let him but learn of love to read in thee, Stella, those fair lines which true goodness show. There shall he find all vices’ overthrow, Not by rude force, but sweetest […]
Astrophel and Stella: LXIV by Sir Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella: LXIV by Sir Philip Sidney No more, my dear, no more these counsels try; Oh, give my passions leave to run their race; Let Fortune lay on me her worst disgrace; Let folk o’ercharg’d with brain against me cry; Let clouds bedim my face, break in mine eye; Let me no steps […]
Astrophel and Stella: III by Sir Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella: III by Sir Philip Sidney Let dainty wits cry on the sisters nine, That, bravely mask’d, their fancies may be told; Or, Pindar’s apes, flaunt they in phrases fine, Enam’ling with pied flowers their thoughts of gold. Or else let them in statelier glory shine, Ennobling newfound tropes with problems old; Or […]
Astrophel and Stella: I by Sir Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella: I by Sir Philip Sidney ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: I 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 […]
Astrophel And Stella-First Song by Sir Philip Sidney
Astrophel And Stella-First Song by Sir Philip Sidney Doubt you to whom my Muse these notes intendeth, Which now my breast o’ercharged to music lendeth? To you, to you, all song of praise is due; Only in you my song begins and endeth. Who hath the eyes which marry state with pleasure? Who keeps the […]