Love
Sonnet 27.
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.
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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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