Love

Sonnet 75

by Sir Philip Sidney 1554–1586

Love

SHee comes, and straight therewith her shining twins do moue
Their raies to me: who in her tedious absence lay
Bath'de in cold woe; but now appeares my shining day,
The onely light of ioy, the onely warmth of Loue.
Shee comes with light and warmth, which like Aurora proue;
Of gentle face, so that my eyes dare gladly play
With such a rosy Morne: whose beames both fresh and gay
Scorch not; but onely doe darke chillinge spirits remoue.
But loe, while I doe speake it groweth noone with me,
Her flamy glittering lights increase with time and place:
My heart cryes oh it burnes, mine eyes now dazled be:
No winde, no shade, no coole: what helpe then in my case?
But with short breath, long lookes, staide feete, and waking hed,
Pray that my Sunne goe downe with meeker beames to bed.

MLA

Sidney, Philip. “Sonnet 75.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/sidney/74/.

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Sidney, Philip. “Sonnet 75.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/sidney/74/.

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