Astrophel and Stella: XV

Sir Philip Sidney 1554 (Penshurst, Kent) – 1586 (Zutphen)



You that do search for every purling spring
    Which from the ribs of old Parnassus flows,
    And every flower, not sweet perhaps, which grows
    Near thereabouts, into your poesy wring;
    Ye that do dictionary's method bring
    Into your rimes, running in rattling rows;
    You that poor Petrarch's long-deceased woes
    With new-born sighs and denizen'd wit do sing:
    You take wrong ways; those far-fet helps be such
  As do bewray a want of inward touch,
  And sure, at length stol'n goods do come to light.
  But if, both for your love and skill, your name
  You seek to nurse at fullest breasts of Fame,
  Stella behold, and then begin to endite.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABBAABBACCDEED
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 657
Words 112
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14

Sir Philip Sidney

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