Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 6, by PHILIP SIDNEY


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First Line: Some lovers speak, when they their muses entertain
Last Line: When trembling voice brings forth, that I do stella love.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


Some lovers speak, when they their muses entertain,
Of hopes begot by fear, of wot not what desires,
Of force of heavenly beams, infusing hellish pain,
Of living deaths, dear wounds, fair storms and freezing fires.
Some one his song in Jove, and Jove's strange tales, attires,
Broidered with bulls and swans, powdered with golden rain.
Another, humbler, wit to shepherd's pipe retires,
Yet hiding royal blood full oft in rural vein.
To some a sweetest plaint a sweetest style affords,
While tears pour out his ink, and sighs breathe out his words,
His paper, pale despair, and pain his pen doth move.
I can speak what I feel, and feel as much as they,
But think that all the map of my state I display,
When trembling voice brings forth, that I do Stella love.





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