| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | LXI. Oft with true sighs, oft with uncallèd tears | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | OFT with true sighs, oft with uncallèd tears, | |
| Now with slow words, now with dumb eloquence; | |
| I STELLA’s eyes assailed, invade her ears: | |
| But this, at last, is her sweet breathed defence. | |
| “That who indeed infelt affection bears, | 5 |
| So captives to his saint both soul and sense; | |
| That wholly hers, all selfness he forbears: | |
| Thence his desires he learns, his life’s course thence.” | |
| Now since her chaste mind hates this love in me: | |
| With chastened mind, I needs must show that she | 10 |
| Shall quickly me from what she hates, remove. | |
| O Doctor CUPID! thou for me, reply! | |
| Driven else to grant by angel’s sophistry, | |
| That I love not, without I leave to love. | | | | |
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