Love

Sonnet 66

by Sir Philip Sidney 1554–1586

Love

HOpe art thou true or doost thou flatter me?
Doth Stella now beginne, vvith pitteous eye
The raigne of this her conquest to espie?
Will she take time before all wracked be?
Her eye speech is translated thus by thee.
But failste thou not in phrase so heauenly hye?
Looke ore againe, the faire text better prie;
What blushing notes dost thou in Margent see?
What sighes stolne out, or kild before full borne
Hast thou found such and such like arguments?
Or art thou els to comfort me forsworne?
Well how so ere thou doost interpret my contents,
I am resolu'd thy error to maintaine:
Rather than by more trueth to get more paine.

MLA

Sidney, Philip. “Sonnet 66.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/sidney/65/.

Chicago

Sidney, Philip. “Sonnet 66.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/sidney/65/.

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