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ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 60 by PHILIP SIDNEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHEN MY GOOD ANGEL GUIDES ME TO THE PLACE
Last Line: BLESSED IN MY CURSE, AND CURSED IN MY BLISS.
Subject(s): LOVE; STARS;
When my good angel guides me to the place
Where all my good I do in Stella see,
That heaven of joys throws only down on me
Thundered disdains, and lightnings of disgrace;
But when the rugged'st step of fortune's race
Makes me fall from her sight, then sweetly she
With words, wherein the muses' treasures be,
Shows love and pity to my absent case.
Now I, wit-beaten long by hardest fate,
So dull am, that I cannot look into
The ground of this fierce love and lovely hate,
Then some good body tell me how I do,
Whose presence absence, absence presence is;
Blessed in my curse, and cursed in my bliss.



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