Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 100, by PHILIP SIDNEY


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ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 100, by                 Poet's Biography
First Line: O tears! No tears, but rain from beauty's skies
Last Line: All mirth farewell, let me in sorrow live.
Subject(s): Love; Stars


O tears, no tears, but rain from beauty's skies,
Making those lilies and those roses grow
Which aye most fair, now more than most fair show,
While graceful pity beauty beautifies:
O honeyed sighs, which from that breast do rise
Whose pants do make unspilling cream to flow,
Winged with whose breath so pleasing zephyrs blow,
As can refresh the hell where my soul fries:
O plaints, conserved in such a sugared phrase
That eloquence itself envies your praise,
While sobbed-out words a perfect music give:
Such tears, sighs, plaints, no sorrow is, but joy;
Or if such heavenly signs must prove annoy,
All mirth farewell, let me in sorrow live.





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