| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | LXV. Love! by sure proof I may call thee unkind | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | LOVE! by sure proof I may call thee unkind; | |
| That giv’st no better ear to my just cries! | |
| Thou, whom to me, such my good turns should bind, | |
| As I may well recount, but none can prize. | |
| For when, naked boy! thou couldst no harbour find | 5 |
| In this old world, grown now so too too wise; | |
| I lodged thee in my heart: and being blind | |
| By nature born, I gave to thee mine eyes. | |
| Mine eyes! my light! my heart! my life! Alas! | |
| If so great services may scornèd be: | 10 |
| Yet let this thought, thy tigerish courage pass. | |
| That I, perhaps, am somewhat kin to thee; | |
| Since in thine arms, if learned Fame truth hath spread, | |
| Thou bar’st the arrow; I, the arrow head. | | | | |
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