| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | XLIII. Fair eyes! sweet lips! dear heart! that foolish I | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | FAIR eyes! sweet lips! dear heart! that foolish I | |
| Could hope, by CUPID’s help, on you to prey: | |
| Since to himself, he doth your gifts apply; | |
| As his main force, choice sport, and easeful stay. | |
| For when he will see who dare him gainsay; | 5 |
| Then with those eyes, he looks. Lo! by and by, | |
| Each soul doth at LOVE’s feet, his weapons lay; | |
| Glad if for her he give them leave to die. | |
| When he will play; then in her lips, he is; | |
| Where blushing red, that LOVE’s self them doth love; | 10 |
| With either lip, he doth the other kiss. | |
| But when he will for quiet’s sake, remove | |
| From all the world; her heart is then his room: | |
| Where, well he knows, no man to him can come. | | | | |
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