| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | LXXVII. Those looks! whose beams be joy, whose motion is delight | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | THOSE looks! whose beams be joy, whose motion is delight; | |
| That face! whose lecture shows what perfect beauty is; | |
| That presence! which doth give dark hearts a living light; | |
| That grace! which VENUS weeps that she herself doth miss; | |
| That hand! which without touch, holds more than ATLAS’ might; | 5 |
| Those lips! which make death’s pay, a mean price for a kiss; | |
| That skin! whose past-praise hue scorns this poor term of white; | |
| Those words! which do sublime the quintessence of bliss; | |
| That voice! which makes the soul plant himself in the ears; | |
| That conversation sweet! where such high comforts be, | 10 |
| As construed in true speech, the name of heaven it bears: | |
| Make me in my best thoughts and quiet’st judgment see | |
| That in no more but these, I might be fully blest; | |
| Yet, ah! My maiden Muse doth blush to tell the rest. | | | | |
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