Poems by Sir Philip Sidney
Astrophel and Stella: 16
... e speld,I now haue learn'd Loue right, and learn'd euen so,As who by being poisoned doth poison know ...
Astrophel and Stella: 17
... crowes,And straight therewith like wags new got to play,Fals to shrewd turnes, and I was in his way ...
Astrophel and Stella: 18
... e my selfe doth bend:I see and yet no greater sorrow take,Then that I loose no more for Stellas sake ...
Astrophel and Stella: 19
... n his growth:And not in Nature, for best fruits vnfit:Scholler, saith Loue, bend hitherward your wit ...
Astrophel and Stella: 20
... g grace,And then descried the glistring of his dart:But ere I could flie thence, it pierc'd my heart ...
Astrophel and Stella: 21
... den mine,Dig deepe with learnings spade, now tel me this,Hath this world ought so faire as Stella is ...
Astrophel and Stella: 22
... the wealth because her owne:Yet were the hid and meaner beauties parcht,Her daintiest bare went free ...
Astrophel and Stella: 23
... alas the raceOf all my thoughts hath neither stop nor start,But onely Stellas eyes and Stellas harte ...
Astrophel and Stella: 24
... vnfelt joyes,(Exil'd for ay from those high treasures, whichHe knowes not) grow in onely follie rich ...
Astrophel and Stella: 25
... I her did see,Vertues great beautie in that face I proue,And find th'effect, for I do burne in loue ...
Astrophel and Stella: 26
... makes me sure,Who oft fore-judge my after-following race,By onely those two starres in Stellas face ...
Astrophel and Stella: 27
... Because I oft in darke abstracted guise,Seeme most alone in greatest companieWith dearth of words, or answers quite awrie,To them that would make speech of speech arise,They deeme, and of their doome the rumour flies,That poyson foule of bubling pride doth lieSo in my swelling breast that onely IFawne on me selfe, and others do despise:Yet pride I thinke doth not my soule possesse,Which lookes too oft in his vnflattring glasse:But one worse fault Ambition I confesse,That makes me oft my best friends ouer-passe,Vnseene, vnheard, while thought to highest placeBends all his powers, euen vnto Stellas grace. ...
Astrophel and Stella: 28
... e simplicitie,Breathe out the flames which burne within my heart,Loue onely reading vnto me this art ...
Astrophel and Stella: 29
... Like some weake Lords, neighbord by mighty kings,To keepe themselues and their chiefe cities free,Do easly yeeld, that all their coasts may beReady to store their campes of needfull things:So Stellas heart finding what power Loue brings,To keepe it selfe in life and liberty,Doth willing graunt, that in the frontiers heVse all to helpe his other conquerings:And thus her heart escapes, but thus her eyesSerue him with shot, her lips his heralds arre:Her breasts his tents, legs his triumphall carre:Her flesh his foode, her skin his armour braue,And I, but for because my prospect liesVpon that coast, am giu'n vp for a slaue. ...
Astrophel and Stella: 30
... ame golden bit,Wherewith my father once made it halfe tame,If in the Scotch Court be no weltring yet ...
