A review by yarahossam
Astrophel And Stella by Philip Sidney

5.0

Some of my favorite verses:

1- "When Nature made her chief work, Stella’s eyes,
In colour black why wrapp’d she beams so bright?"

2- "O Love, truly, in what a boyish manner
You carry out your most serious tasks,
So that when Heaven shows you his best offering
You nevertheless leave that best behind."

3- "Poor passenger, pass now thereby I did,
And stayed pleas’d with the prospect of the place,
While that black hue from me the bad guest hid:
But straight I saw motions of lightning grace,
And then descried the glist’ring of his dart:
But ere I could fly hence, it pierc’d my heart."

4- "Come, let me write. “And to what end?” To ease
A burthen’d heart. “How can words ease, which are
The glasses of thy daily vexing care?”
Oft cruel fights well pictur’d forth do please.
“Art not asham’d to publish thy disease?”
Nay, that may breed my fame, it is so rare."

5- "Dear, why make you more of a dog than me?
If he do love, I burn, I burn in love;
If he wait well, I never thence would move;
If he be fair, yet but a dog can be.
Little he is, so little worth is he;"