| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | LXXXV. I see the house! My heart! thyself contain! | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | I SEE the house! My heart! thyself contain! | |
| Beware full sails drown not thy tottering barge! | |
| Lest joy—by Nature apt, spirits to enlarge— | |
| Thee to thy wrack, beyond thy limits strain. | |
| Nor do like lords, whose weak confusèd brain, | 5 |
| Not ’pointing to fit folks each undercharge; | |
| While every office themselves will discharge, | |
| With doing all, leave nothing done but pain: | |
| But give apt servants their due place! Let eyes | |
| See Beauty’s total sum summed in her face! | 10 |
| Let ears hear speech, which wit to wonder ties! | |
| Let breath suck up those sweets! Let arms embrace | |
| The globe of weal! Lips, love’s indentures make! | |
| Thou but of all, the Kingly tribute take! | | | | |
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