Poetry Codex

Tudor & Elizabethan

Sir Philip Sidney

1554–1586

Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) was an English poet, courtier, and soldier, killed at the Battle of Zutphen at thirty-one.

His sonnet sequence Astrophel and Stella (1591) is the first great sequence in English, chronicling an unrequited, thinly-veiled autobiographical love.

Major Works (1)

  1. The Psalms of David (Psalms 1–43) — Psalter (verse paraphrase), c. 1580s (first printed 1823)

Poems (175)

  1. Sonnet 1
  2. Sonnet 2
  3. Sonnet 3
  4. Sonnet 4
  5. Sonnet 5
  6. Sonnet 6
  7. Sonnet 7
  8. Sonnet 8
  9. Sonnet 9
  10. Sonnet 10
  11. Sonnet 11
  12. Sonnet 12
  13. Sonnet 13
  14. Sonnet 14
  15. Sonnet 15
  16. Sonnet 16
  17. Sonnet 17
  18. Sonnet 18
  19. Sonnet 19
  20. Sonnet 20
  21. Sonnet 21
  22. Sonnet 22
  23. Sonnet 23
  24. Sonnet 24
  25. Sonnet 25
  26. Sonnet 26
  27. Sonnet 27
  28. Sonnet 28
  29. Sonnet 29
  30. Sonnet 30
  31. Sonnet 31
  32. Sonnet 32
  33. Sonnet 33
  34. Sonnet 34
  35. Sonnet 35
  36. Sonnet 36
  37. Sonnet 37
  38. Sonnet 38
  39. Sonnet 39
  40. Sonnet 40
  41. Sonnet 41
  42. Sonnet 42
  43. Sonnet 43
  44. Sonnet 44
  45. Sonnet 45
  46. Sonnet 46
  47. Sonnet 47
  48. Sonnet 48
  49. Sonnet 49
  50. Sonnet 50
  51. Sonnet 51
  52. Sonnet 52
  53. Sonnet 53
  54. Sonnet 54
  55. Sonnet 55
  56. Sonnet 56
  57. Sonnet 57
  58. Sonnet 58
  59. Sonnet 59
  60. Sonnet 60
  61. Sonnet 61
  62. Sonnet 62
  63. Sonnet 63
  64. Sonnet 64
  65. Sonnet 65
  66. Sonnet 66
  67. Sonnet 67
  68. Sonnet 68
  69. Sonnet 69
  70. Sonnet 70
  71. Sonnet 71
  72. Sonnet 72
  73. Sonnet 73
  74. Sonnet 74
  75. Sonnet 75
  76. Sonnet 76
  77. Sonnet 77
  78. Sonnet 78
  79. Sonnet 79
  80. Sonnet 80
  81. Sonnet 81
  82. Sonnet 82
  83. Sonnet 83
  84. Sonnet 84
  85. Sonnet 85
  86. Sonnet 86
  87. Sonnet 87
  88. Sonnet 88
  89. Sonnet 89
  90. Sonnet 90
  91. Sonnet 91
  92. Sonnet 92
  93. Sonnet 93
  94. Sonnet 94
  95. Sonnet 95
  96. Sonnet 96
  97. Sonnet 97
  98. Sonnet 98
  99. Sonnet 99
  100. Sonnet 100
  101. Sonnet 101
  102. Sonnet 102
  103. Sonnet 103
  104. Sonnet 104
  105. Sonnet 105
  106. Sonnet 106
  107. Sonnet 107
  108. Second Sonnet.
  109. Third Sonnet.
  110. Fourth Sonnet.
  111. The fifth Sonnet.
  112. The sixth Sonnet.
  113. The seuenth Sonnet.
  114. The eighth.
  115. The ninth Sonnet.
  116. The tenth Sonnet.
  117. Sonnet 1.
  118. Sonnet, 2.
  119. Sonnet 3.
  120. Sonnet, 4.
  121. Sonnet, 5.
  122. Sonnet 6.
  123. Sonnet 71.
  124. Sonnet 8.
  125. Sonnet 9.
  126. Sonnet 10.
  127. Sonnet 11.
  128. Sonnet 12.
  129. Sonnet, 13.
  130. Sonnet, 14.
  131. Sonnet 15.
  132. Sonnet, 16.
  133. Sonnet, 17.
  134. Sonnet 18.
  135. Sonnet 19.
  136. Sonnet, 20.
  137. Sonnet, 2.
  138. Sonnet, 22.
  139. Sonnet 23.
  140. Sonnet 24.
  141. Sonnet 25.
  142. Sonnet 26.
  143. Sonnet 27.
  144. Canto Secundo.
  145. Canto Tertio.
  146. Canto Quarto.
  147. Canto Quinto.
  148. (untitled)
  149. (untitled)
  150. A Ditty
  151. The Serenade
  152. The Shepherd to his chosen Nymph
  153. Astrophel's Love is dead
  154. Astrophel the Shepherd his complaint to his Flock
  155. The Shepherd Musidorus his Complaint
  156. The Shepherd's Brawl, one half answering the other
  157. Dorus his Comparisons
  158. Espilus and Therion, their Contention in Song for the May-Lady
  159. Astrophel to Stella, his third Song
  160. Sireno, a Shepherd, having a lock of his fair Nymph's hair, wrapt about with green silk, mourns in a love-ditty
  161. Another of Astrophel to his Stella
  162. Another of Astrophel
  163. Another Sonnet
  164. Two Pastorals upon three Friends meeting
  165. An Excellent Sonnet of a Nymph
  166. Another of the Same
  167. Dispraise of a Courtly Life
  168. Song
  169. Splendidis longum valedico Nugis
  170. First Sonnet.
  171. Thou blind man's mark, thou fool's self-chosen snare
  172. Lock up, fair lids, the treasure of my heart
  173. Madrigal
  174. Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be
  175. The lad Philisides

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