| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | CV. Unhappy sight! And hath she vanished by? | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | UNHAPPY sight! And hath she vanished by? | |
| So near! in so good time! so free a place! | |
| Dead glass! dost thou thy object so embrace, | |
| As what my heart still sees thou canst not spy? | |
| I swear by her I love and lack, that I | 5 |
| Was not in fault, who bent thy dazzling race | |
| Only unto the heaven of STELLA’s face; | |
| Counting but dust what in the way did lie. | |
| But cease mine eyes! your tears do witness well | |
| That you guiltless thereof, your nectar missed: | 10 |
| Curst be the page from whence the bad torch fell! | |
| Curst be the night which did your strife resist! | |
| Curst be the coachman that did drive so fast! | |
| With no worse curse than absence makes me taste. | | | | |
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