| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | VIII. Love born in Greece, of late fled from his native place | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | LOVE born in Greece, of late fled from his native place; | |
| Forced by a tedious proof, that Turkish hardened heart | |
| Is no fit mark to pierce with his fine pointed dart: | |
| And pleased with our soft peace, stayed here his flying race. | |
| But finding these North climes do coldly him embrace; | 5 |
| Not used to frozen clips, he strave to find some part | |
| Where, with most ease and warmth, he might employ his art. | |
| At length he perched himself in STELLA’s joyful face; | |
| Whose fair skin, beamy eyes, like morning sun on snow: | |
| Deceived the quaking boy; who thought from so pure light, | 10 |
| Effects of lively heat must needs in nature grow. | |
| But she most fair, most cold, made him thence take his flight | |
| To my close heart; where, while some firebrands he did lay, | |
| He burnt un’wares his wings, and cannot fly away. | | | | |
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