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
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- The Gardener XIX: You Walked by Rabindranath Tagore
- Sonnet CXIV by William Shakespeare
- Виктор Шамонин-Версенев – Дед-разиня, хитрая лиса и глупый волк
- A Fountain, a Bottle, a Donkey’s Ears, and Some Books by Robert Frost
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- Robert Burns: Impromptu Lines To Captain Riddell: On Returning a Newspaper.
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- Sonnet Ii
- Василий Жуковский – К ней
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- I a soul by Muralidharan Mudaliar
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.