| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Sonnets and Poetical Translations | | X. And have I heard her say, “O cruel pain!” | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | AND have I heard her say, “O cruel pain!” | |
| And doth she know what mould her beauty bears? | |
| Mourns she, in truth; and thinks that others feign? | |
| Fears she to feel, and feels not other’s fears? | |
| Or doth she think all pain the mind forbears; | 5 |
| That heavy earth, not fiery spirits may plain? | |
| That eyes weep worse than heart in bloody tears? | |
| That sense feels more that what doth sense contain? | |
| No! no! She is too wise! She knows her face | |
| Hath not such pain, as it makes others have. | 10 |
| She knows the sickness of that perfect place | |
| Hath yet such health, as it my life can save. | |
| But this she thinks, “Our pain, high cause excuseth: | |
| Where her who should rule pain; false pain abuseth.” | | | | |
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