| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | LXXXIX. Now that of absence the most irksome night | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | NOW that of absence the most irksome night, | |
| With darkest shade, doth overcome my day: | |
| Since STELLA’s eyes wont to give me my day; | |
| Leaving my hemisphere, leave me in night. | |
| Each day seems long, and longs for long-stayed night; | 5 |
| The night as tedious, woos th’approach of day. | |
| Tired with the dusty toils of busy day; | |
| Languisht with horrors of the silent night: | |
| Suffering the evils both of the day and night; | |
| While no night is more dark than is my day, | 10 |
| Nor no day hath less quiet than my night. | |
| With such bad mixture of my night and day; | |
| That living thus in blackest winter night, | |
| I feel the flames of hottest summer’s day. | | | | |
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