Astrophel And Stella-Sonnet LIV
by Sir Philip Sidney
Because I breathe not love to every one,
Nor do not use set colours for to wear,
Nor nourish special locks of vowed hair,
Nor give each speech a full point of a groan,
The courtly nymphs, acquainted with the moan
Of them who in their lips Love’s standard bear,
“What, he!” say they of me, “now I dare swear
He cannot love. No, no, let him alone.”—
And think so still, so Stella know my mind!
Profess indeed I do not Cupid’s art;
But you, fair maids, at length this true shall find,
That his right badge is worn but in the heart.
Dumb swans, not chattering pies, do lovers prove:
They love indeed who quake to say they love.
End of the poem
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- In Imitation of Cowley : The Garden poem – Alexander Pope
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- Владимир Маяковский – Эй! крестьянин, помни ты… (Главполитпросвет №43)
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- Николай Карамзин – Триолет Алете в тот день, как ей исполнилось 14 лет
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- On Catullus by Walter Savage Landor
- The Land Of Happy by Shel Silverstein
- The Booker Washington Trilogy by Vachel Lindsay
- The Ballad Of The Foxhunter by William Butler Yeats
- Низами Гянджеви – Хмельное счастье мое очнется
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Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) was an English courtier, statesman, soldier, diplomat, writer, and patron of scholars and poets. He was a godson of Philip II of Spain. Sir Philip Sidney was considered the ideal gentleman of his day. He is also one of the most important poets of the Elizabethan Era.