| Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867. | | | | III. Sonnet to the Moon | | By Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | 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 | 5 |
| Can judge of love, thou feel’st a lover’s case; | |
| I read it in thy looks, thy languished grace | |
| To me that feel the like thy state descries. | |
| Then, even of fellowship, O Moon! tell me, | |
| Is constant love deemed there but want of wit? | 10 |
| Are beauties there as proud as here they be? | |
| Do they above love to be loved, and yet | |
| Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? | |
| Do they call virtue there ungratefulness? | | | | |
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