| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | XCI. Stella! while now, by honour’s cruel might | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | STELLA! while now, by honour’s cruel might, | |
| I am from you—light of my life misled! | |
| And that fair you, my sun, thus overspread, | |
| With absence veil; I live in sorrow’s night. | |
| If this dark place yet show, like candlelight, | 5 |
| Some beauty’s piece, as amber-coloured head, | |
| Milk hands, rose cheeks, or lips more sweet, more red; | |
| Or seeing gets black, but in blackness bright: | |
| They please, I do confess, they please mine eyes. | |
| But why? Because of you they models be. | 10 |
| Models! Such be wood globes of glistering skies. | |
| Dear! Therefore be not jealous over me, | |
| If you hear that they seem my heart to move. | |
| Not them, O no! but you in them I love. | | | | |
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