| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | XCVI. Thought! with good cause thou likest so well the night! | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | THOUGHT! with good cause thou likest so well the night! | |
| Since kind or chance gives both one livery: | |
| Both sadly black, both blackly darkened be; | |
| Night barred from sun; thou, from thine own sunlight. | |
| Silence in both displays his sullen might; | 5 |
| Slow heaviness in both holds one degree; | |
| That full of doubts; thou, of perplexity: | |
| Thy tears express night’s native moisture right. | |
| In both a mazeful solitariness. | |
| In night, of sprites the ghastly powers do stir; | 10 |
| In thee, or sprites or sprited ghastliness: | |
| But, but, alas, night’s side the odds hath far: | |
| For that, at length, yet doth invite some rest; | |
| Thou, though still tired, yet still dost it detest! | | | | |
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