| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | XCV. Yet Sighs! dear Sighs! indeed true friends you are | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | YET SIGHS! dear SIGHS! indeed true friends you are | |
| That do not leave your left friend at the worst: | |
| But as you with my breast I oft have nurst; | |
| So grateful now, you wait upon my care. | |
| Faint coward JOY no longer tarry dare; | 5 |
| Seeing HOPE yield, when this woe strake him first: | |
| DELIGHT protests he is not for the accurst, | |
| Though oft himself my mate in arms he sware. | |
| Nay, SORROW comes with such main rage, that he | |
| Kills his own children, TEARS; finding that they | 10 |
| By LOVE were made apt to consort with me. | |
| Only true SIGHS! you do not go away! | |
| Thank may you have for such a thankful part; | |
| Thankworthiest yet, when you shall break my heart! | | | | |
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