| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | CIII. O happy Thames! that didst my Stella bare | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | O HAPPY THAMES! that didst my STELLA bare. | |
| I saw thyself with many a smiling line | |
| Upon thy cheerful face, JOY’s livery wear; | |
| While those fair planets on thy streams did shine. | |
| The boat, for joy could not to dance forbear: | 5 |
| While wanton winds, with beauties so divine, | |
| Ravished; stayed not, till in her golden hair | |
| They did themselves (O sweetest prison!) twine. | |
| And fain those ÆOL’s youths there would their stay | |
| Have made; but forced by Nature still to fly; | 10 |
| First did with puffing kiss, those locks display. | |
| She so dishevelled, blushed. From window, I, | |
| With sight thereof, cried out, “O fair disgrace! | |
| Let honour’s self to thee grant highest place!” | | | | |
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