Love

Sonnet 27.

by Sir Philip Sidney 1554–1586

Love

RAising my hope on hills of high desire,
Thinking to scale the heauen of her hart,
My slender meane presumes too high a part:
For disdaines thunderbolt made me retire,

And threw me downe to paine in all this fire.
Where lo I languish in so heauie smart,
Because th'attempt was far aboue my Art,
Hir state brooks not poore soules should come so nie hir.

Yet I protest my high aspiring will,
Was not to dispossesse hir of hir right,
Hir Soueraigntie should haue remained still,
I onely sought the blisse, to haue hir sight:
Hir sight contented thus to see me spill,
Fram'd my desires fit for hir eies to kill.

MLA

Sidney, Philip. “Sonnet 27.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/sidney/142/.

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Sidney, Philip. “Sonnet 27.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/sidney/142/.

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