| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | LXXIX. Sweet kiss! thy sweets I fain would sweetly endite | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | SWEET kiss! thy sweets I fain would sweetly endite: | |
| Which even of sweetness, sweetest sweet’ner art! | |
| Pleasing’st consort! where each sense holds a part; | |
| Which coupling doves guide VENUS’ chariot right. | |
| Best charge and bravest retreat in CUPID’s fight! | 5 |
| A double key! which opens to the heart. | |
| Most rich, when most his riches it impart! | |
| Nest of young joys! schoolmaster of delight! | |
| Teaching the mean at once to take and give. | |
| The friendly fray! where blows both wound and heal. | 10 |
| The pretty death! while each in other live. | |
| Poor hope’s first wealth! hostage of promised weal! | |
| Breakfast of love! But lo! lo! where she is, | |
| Cease we to praise. Now pray we for a kiss? | | | | |
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