| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | LXXVI. She comes! and straight therewith her shining twins do move | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | SHE comes! and straight therewith her shining twins do move | |
| Their rays to me; who, in her tedious absence, lay | |
| Benighted in cold woe: but now appears my day, | |
| The only light of joy, the only warmth of love. | |
| She comes with light and warmth! which like AURORA prove | 5 |
| Of gentle force, so that mine eyes dare gladly play | |
| With such a rosy morn; whose beams, most freshly gay, | |
| Scorch not: but only do dark chilling sprites remove. | |
| But lo! while I do speak, it groweth noon with me; | |
| Her flamy glistering lights increase with time and place: | 10 |
| My heart cries, “Ah! It burns!” Mine eyes now dazzled be. | |
| No wind, no shade can cool. What help then in my case? | |
| But with short breath, long looks, stayed feet, and walking head; | |
| Pray that my Sun go down with meeker beams to bed. | | | | |
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