| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | LX. When my good angel guides me to the place | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | WHEN my good angel guides me to the place | |
| Where all my good I do in STELLA see; | |
| That heaven of joys throws only down on me | |
| Thundered disdains and lightnings of disgrace. | |
| But when the rugged’st step of Fortune’s race | 5 |
| Makes me fall from her sight; then sweetly she | |
| With words—wherein the Muses’ treasures be— | |
| Shows love and pity to my absent case. | |
| Now I—wit-beaten long by hardest Fate— | |
| So dull am, that I cannot look into | 10 |
| The ground of this fierce love and lovely hate. | |
| Then some good body tell me how I do! | |
| Whose presence, absence; absence, presence is: | |
| Blessed in my curse, and cursèd in my bliss. | | | | |
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