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"Let here his eyes be raised
On Nature's sweetest light;"
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), British poet. Who Hath His Fancy Pleased (l. 3-4). . .
Poets of the English Language, Vols. I-V. Vol. I: Langland to Spenser; Vol. II: Marlowe to Marvell; Vol. III: Milton to Goldsmith; Vol. IV: Blake to Poe; Vol. V: Tennyson to Yeats. W. H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson, eds. (1950) The Viking Press. |
"She never dies, but lasteth
In life of lover's heart;
He ever dies that wasteth
In love his chiefest part."
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), British poet. Who Hath His Fancy Pleased (l. 9-12). . .
Poets of the English Language, Vols. I-V. Vol. I: Langland to Spenser; Vol. II: Marlowe to Marvell; Vol. III: Milton to Goldsmith; Vol. IV: Blake to Poe; Vol. V: Tennyson to Yeats. W. H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson, eds. (1950) The Viking Press. |
"Poetry ... is ... a speaking picture, with this end: to teach and delight."
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), British poet, diplomat, soldier. An Apology for Poetry (written 1579-1580, published 1595), ed. J. Churton Collins (1907). |
"O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!"
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), British poet. Arcadia. . .
Poets of the English Language, Vols. I-V. Vol. I: Langland to Spenser; Vol. II: Marlowe to Marvell; Vol. III: Milton to Goldsmith; Vol. IV: Blake to Poe; Vol. V: Tennyson to Yeats. W. H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson, eds. (1950) The Viking Press. |
"My true love hath my heart, and I have his,
By just exchange, one for the other given.
I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss,
There never was a better bargain driven."
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), British poet. Arcadia. . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press. |
"Both equal hurt, in this change sought our bliss:
My true love hath my heart and I have his."
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586), British poet. Arcadia. . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press. |
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