| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | XLII. O Eyes! which do the spheres of beauty move | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | O EYES! which do the spheres of beauty move; | |
| Whose beams be joys; whose joys, all virtues be; | |
| Who while they make LOVE conquer, conquer LOVE. | |
| The schools where VENUS hath learned chastity. | |
| O eyes! where humble looks most glorious prove; | 5 |
| Only, loved tyrants! just in cruelty, | |
| Do not! O do not from poor me remove! | |
| Keep still my zenith! Ever shine on me! | |
| For though I never see them, but straightways | |
| My life forgets to nourish languisht sprites; | 10 |
| Yet still on me, O eyes! dart down your rays! | |
| And if from majesty of sacred lights | |
| Oppressing mortal sense, my death proceed: | |
| Wracks, triumphs be; which love (high set) doth breed. | | | | |
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