Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume III. Sorrow and Consolation. 1904. | | | | I. Disappointment in Love | | Sonnet: “With how sad steps” | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
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WITH how sad steps, O Moon! thou climb’st the skies, | |
| How silently, and with how wan a face! | |
| What may it be, that even in heavenly place | |
| That busy Archer his sharp arrows tries? | |
| Sure, if that long-with-love-acquainted eyes | 5 |
| Can judge of love, thou feel’st a lover’s case; | |
| I read it in thy looks; thy languished grace | |
| To me, that feel the like, thy state descries. | |
| Then, even of fellowship, O Moon, tell me, | |
| Is constant love deemed there but want of wit? | 10 |
| Are beauties there as proud as here they be? | |
| Do they above love to be loved, and yet | |
| Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess? | |
| Do they call virtue there ungratefulness? | | | | |
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