| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | C. O Tears! no tears but rain from beauty’s skies | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | O TEARS! no tears but rain from beauty’s skies | |
| Making those lilies and those roses grow; | |
| Which aye most fair, now more than most fair show; | |
| While graceful pity, beauty beautifies. | |
| O honeyed Sighs! which from that breast do rise, | 5 |
| Whose pants do make unspilling cream to flow: | |
| Winged with whose breath, so pleasing zephyrs blow | |
| As can refresh the hell where my soul fries. | |
| O Plaints! conserved in such a sugared phrase, | |
| That eloquence itself envies your praise. | 10 |
| While sobbed out words a perfect music give. | |
| Such Tears, Sighs, Plaints, no sorrow are but joy: | |
| Or if such heavenly signs must prove annoy; | |
| All mirth, farewell! Let me in sorrow live! | | | | |
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