Astrophel and Stella: XLI
by Sir Philip Sidney
Having this day my horse, my hand, my lance
Guided so well that I obtain’d the prize,
Both by the judgment of the English eyes
And of some sent from that sweet enemy France;
Horsemen my skill in horsemanship advance,
Town folks my strength; a daintier judge applies
His praise to sleight which from good use doth rise;
Some lucky wits impute it but to chance;
Others, because of both sides I do take
My blood from them who did excel in this,
Think Nature me a man of arms did make.
How far they shot awry! The true cause is,
Stella look’d on, and from her heav’nly face
Sent forth the beams which made so fair my race.
End of the poem
15 random poems
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- Sonnet 89: Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault by William Shakespeare
- Where Have We All Gone by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Song—Awa’, Whigs, Awa’ by Robert Burns
- The Great War by Vernon Scannell
- Love and Law by Vachel Lindsay
- Олег Бундур – Засыпаю
- Валерий Брюсов – Годы в былом
- First kiss for Arys and Nikys by Nicole Vasilcovschi
- Sonnet 74: But be contented when that fell arrest by William Shakespeare
- Reconciliation by William Butler Yeats
- The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Brooklyn Narcissus by Paul Blackburn
- Inflexible As Fate poem – Alfred Austin
- A Meeting With Despair by Thomas Hardy
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
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.