Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | Astrophel and Stella | CVI. O absent presence! Stella is not here! | Sir Philip Sidney (15541586) |
| O ABSENT presence! STELLA is not here! | |
False flattering hope! that with so fair a face | |
Bare me in hand that in this orphan place | |
STELLA, I say, my STELLA! should appear. | |
What sayest thou now? Where is that dainty cheer | 5 |
Thou toldst mine eyes should help their famished case? | |
But thou art gone now; that self-felt disgrace | |
Doth make me most to wish thy comfort near. | |
But here I do store of fair ladies meet; | |
Who may with charm of conversation sweet, | 10 |
Make in my heavy mould, new thoughts to grow. | |
Sure they prevail as much with me, as he | |
That bade his friend, but then new-maimed, to be | |
Merry with him and not think of his woe. | | | |
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