Sonnet 64 No More My Dear
No more, my dear, no more these counsels try; Oh, give my passions leave to run their race; Let Fortune lay on me her worst disgrace; Let folk o'ercharg'd with brain against me cry; Let clouds bedim my face, break in mine eye; Let me no steps but of lost labour trace; Let all the earth with scorn recount my case, But do not will me from my love to fly. I do not envy Aristotle's wit, Nor do aspire to Caesar's bleeding fame; Nor aught do care though some above me sit; Nor hope nor wish another course to frame, But that which once may win thy cruel heart: Thou art my wit, and thou my virtue art.
Sir Philip Sidney
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Who will in fairest book of nature know How virtue may best lodg'd in beauty be, Let him but learn of love to read in thee, Stella, those fair lines which true goodness show There shall he find all vices' overthrow, Not by rude force, but swe...
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The wisest scholar of the wight most wise By Phoebus' doom, with sugar'd sentence says, That Virtue, if it once met with our eyes, Strange flames of love it in our souls would raise; But for that man with pain his truth descries,
Sonnet 17 His Mother Dear Cupid
His mother dear Cupid offended late, Because that Mars grown slacker in her love, With pricking shot he did not throughly more To keep the pace of their first loving state The boy refus'd for fear of Mars's hate,
Sonnet 22 In Highest Way of Heavn
In highest way of heav'n the Sun did ride, Progressing then from fair twins' golden place: Having no scarf of clouds before his face, But shining forth of heat in his chief pride;