| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | XC. Stella! think not that I by verse seek fame | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | STELLA! think not that I by verse seek fame; | |
| Who seek, who hope, who love, who live but thee. | |
| Thine eyes my pride; thy lips mine history: | |
| If thou praise not, all other praise is shame. | |
| Not so ambitious am I as to frame | 5 |
| A nest for my young praise in laurel tree: | |
| In truth I swear, I wish not there should be | |
| Graved in my epitaph, a Poet’s name. | |
| Ne if I would, I could just title make | |
| That any laud to me thereof should grow, | 10 |
| Without my plumes from others’ wings I take. | |
| For nothing from my wit or will doth flow: | |
| Since all my words, thy beauty doth indite; | |
| And love doth hold my hand and makes me write. | | | | |
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