Astrophel and Stella VII: WhenNature Made her Chief Work
by Sir Philip Sidney
When Nature made her chief work, Stella’s eyes,
In colour black why wrapt she beams so bright?
Would she in beamy black, like painter wise,
Frame daintiest lustre, mix’d of shades and light?
Or did she else that sober hue devise,
In object best to knit and strength our sight;
Lest, if no veil these brave gleams did disguise,
They, sunlike, should more dazzle than delight?
Or would she her miraculous power show,
That, whereas black seems beauty’s contrary,
She even in black doth make all beauties flow?
Both so, and thus,–she, minding Love should be
Plac’d ever there, gave him this mourning weed
To honour all their deaths who for her bleed.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Colors by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Starting from Paumanok. by Walt Whitman
- Messalina poem – Alfred Austin
- Олег Бундур – Справились с делами
- Юрий Коринец – Март
- Mountain Wellhead
- Стефан Малларме – Появление
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня о конькобежце на короткие дистанции, которого заставили бежать на длинную
- Another Song by Philip Levine
- Ecco Mormorar L’onde (Now The Waves Murmur) by Torquato Tasso
- The Merchant by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Маяковский – Только организация урожай умножит… (Главполитпросвет №33)
- Mozart’s Grave poem – Alfred Austin
- A Prayer For Artemis
- I stood musing in a black world by Stephen Crane
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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.