| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | LXVIII. Stella! the only planet of my light! | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | STELLA! the only planet of my light! | |
| Light of my life! and life of my desire! | |
| Chief good! whereto my hope doth only aspire: | |
| World of my wealth! and heaven of my delight! | |
| Why dost thou spend the treasures of thy sprite, | 5 |
| With voice more fit to wed AMPHION’s lyre; | |
| Seeking to quench in me the noble fire, | |
| Fed by thy worth, and blinded by thy sight? | |
| And all in vain, for while thy breath so sweet, | |
| With choicest words; thy words, with reasons rare; | 10 |
| Thy reasons firmly set on Virtue’s feet; | |
| Labour to kill in me this killing care: | |
| O think I then, what paradise of joy | |
| It is, so fair a virtue to enjoy? | | | | |
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