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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 96, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Thought, with good cause thou likest so well the night
Last Line: Thou, though still tired, yet still dost it detest.
Subject(s): Love; Stars
First Line: Thought, with good cause thou likest so well the night
Last Line: Thou, though still tired, yet still dost it detest.
Subject(s): Love; Stars
Thought, with good cause thou lik'st so well the night,
Since kind or chance gives both one livery:
Both sadly black, both blackly darkened be,
Night barred from sun, thou from thy own sun's light.
Silence in both displays his sullen might;
Slow heaviness in both holds one degree,
That full of doubts, thou of perplexity;
Thy tears express night's native moisture right.
In both a mazeful solitariness:
In night, of sprites the ghastly powers stir,
In thee, or sprites, or sprited ghastliness,
But, but, alas, night's side the odds hath, far,
For that at length yet doth invite some rest,
Thou, though still tired, yet still dost it detest.
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