| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | XXIX. Like some weak lords—neighboured by mighty kings | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | LIKE some weak lords—neighboured by mighty kings— | |
| To keep themselves and their chief cities free; | |
| Do easily yield that all their coasts may be | |
| Ready to store their camp of needful things: | |
| So STELLA’s heart, finding what power LOVE brings, | 5 |
| To keep itself in life and liberty; | |
| Doth willing grant that in the frontiers he | |
| Use all to help his other conquerings: | |
| And thus her heart escapes, but thus her eyes | |
| Serve him with shot; her lips, his heralds are; | 10 |
| Her breasts, his tents; legs, his triumphal car; | |
| Her flesh, his food; her skin, his armour brave. | |
| And I, but for because my prospect lies | |
| Upon that coast, am given up for slave. | | | | |
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