| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | XXXVI. Stella! whence doth this new assault arise? | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | STELLA! whence doth this new assault arise? | |
| A conquered, yielded, ransacked heart to win! | |
| Whereto, long since, through my long battered eyes, | |
| Whole armies of thy beauties entered in. | |
| And there, long since, LOVE thy Lieutenant lies: | 5 |
| My forces razed, thy banners raised within. | |
| Of conquest, do not these effects suffice? | |
| But wilt now war upon thine own begin | |
| With so sweet voice, and by sweet Nature so | |
| In sweetest strength; so sweetly skilled withal | 10 |
| In all sweet stratagems sweet Art can show: | |
| That not my soul, which at thy foot did fall, | |
| Long since forced by thy beams; but stone nor tree | |
| By SENSE’s privilege, can ’scape from thee. | | | | |
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