| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | VI. Some lovers speak, when they their Muses entertain | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | SOME lovers speak, when they their Muses entertain, | |
| Of hopes begot by fear, of wot not what desires, | |
| Of force of heavenly beams infusing hellish pain, | |
| Of living deaths, dear wounds, fair storms, and freezing fires. | |
| Some one his song, in JOVE and JOVE’s strange tales attires; | 5 |
| Bordered with bulls and swans, powdered with golden rain: | |
| Another humbler wit to shepherd’s pipe retires, | |
| Yet hiding royal blood full oft in rural vein. | |
| To some a sweetest plaint, a sweetest style affords; | |
| While tears pour out his ink, and sighs breathe out his words: | 10 |
| His paper, pale despair; and pain, his pen doth move. | |
| I can speak what I feel, and feel as much as they; | |
| But think that all the map of my state I display, | |
| When trembling voice brings forth, that I do STELLA love. | | | | |
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