Poems by Sir Philip Sidney
Sonnet 93: Oh Fate, Oh Fault
... Yet Truth (if caitiff's breath may call thee) this ...
Astrophel and Stella: 2
... mnant of my wit,To make meselfe beleeue, that all is well,While with a feeling skill I paint my hell ...
Astrophel and Stella: 3
... llas face I reed,What Loue and Beautie be, then all my deedBut Copying is, what in her Nature writes ...
Astrophel and Stella: 4
... all shew to thee,That shrines in flesh so true a Deitie,That Vertue, thou thy selfe shalt be in loue ...
Astrophel and Stella: 5
... pilgrims made,And should in soule vp to our countrey moue:True, and yet true that I must Stella loue ...
Astrophel and Stella: 6
... hinke that all the Map of my state I display,When trembling voice brings forth that I do Stella loue ...
Astrophel and Stella: 7
... hould bePlaced euer there, gaue him this mourning weed,To honour all their deaths, who for her bleed ...
Astrophel and Stella: 8
... close heart, where while some firebrands he did lay,He burnt vnwares his wings, and cannot flie away ...
Astrophel and Stella: 9
... h touch,Which Cupids selfe from Beauties mind did draw:Of touch they are, and poore I am their straw ...
Astrophel and Stella: 10
... rayes,Reason thou kneel'dst, and offeredst straight to proueBy reason good, good reason her to loue ...
Astrophel and Stella: 11
... couching lyes,Playing and shining in each outward part:But, foole, seek'st not to get into her hart ...
Astrophel and Stella: 12
... h a Cittadell,So fortified with wit, stor'd with disdaine,That to win it, is all the skill and paine ...
Astrophel and Stella: 13
... he skies:To blaze these last, and sware deuoutly then,The first, thus matcht, were scantly Gentlemen ...
Astrophel and Stella: 14
... fixt hearts doth breedA loathing of all loose vnchastitie,Then Loue is sinne, and let me sinfull be ...
Astrophel and Stella: 15
... kill) your nameYou seeke to nurse at fullest breasts of Fame,Stella behold, and then begin to endite ...
