| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | XXXI. With how sad steps, O Moon! thou climb’st the skies! | | 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 languisht 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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