| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | Stella, Think Not | | By Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | STELLA, think not that I by verse seek fame, | |
| Who seek, who hope, who love, who live but thee; | |
| Thine eyes my pride, thy lips mine history: | |
| If thou praise not, all other praise is shame. | |
| Nor so ambitious am I as to frame | 5 |
| A nest for my young praise in laurel tree: | |
| In truth, I swear, I wish not there should be | |
| Graved in my epitaph a poet’s name. | |
| Ne, if I would, could I just title make, | |
| That any laud thereof to me should grow, | 10 |
| Without my plumes from others’ wings I take: | |
| For nothing from my wit or will doth flow, | |
| Since all my words thy beauty doth indite, | |
| And Love doth hold my hand, and makes me write. | | | | |
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