Love

Dorus his Comparisons

by Sir Philip Sidney 1554–1586

From England's Helicon (1600), ed. A. H. Bullen (1887)

Love

My sheep are thoughts which I both guide and serve,
Their pasture is fair hills of fruitless love;
On barren sweets they feed, and feeding sterve,
I wail their lot, but will not other prove.
My sheep-hook is wan hope, which all upholds;
My weeds, desires, cut out in endless folds.
What wool my sheep shall bear, while thus they live,
In you it is, you must the judgment give.

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Signed "Sir Phil. Sidney" in England's Helicon.

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