Sonnet II: Not At First Sight
by Sir Philip Sidney
Not at first sight, nor with a dribbed shot
Love gave the wound, which while I breathe will bleed;
But known worth did in mine of time proceed,
Till by degrees it had full conquest got:
I saw and liked, I liked but loved not;
I lov’d, but straight did not what Love decreed.
At length to love’s decrees I, forc’d, agreed,
Yet with repining at so partial lot.
Now even that footstep of lost liberty
Is gone, and now like slave-born Muscovite
I call it praise to suffer tyranny;
And now employ the remnant of my wit
To make myself believe that all is well,
While with a feeling skill I paint my hell.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Sonnet 17: Who will believe my verse in time to come by William Shakespeare
- The house where I was born (04) by Yves Bonnefoy
- Come, come thou bleak December wind (fragment) by Samuel Coleridge
- Иван Крылов – Лиса-строитель (Басня)
- Омар Хайям – Что я дружу с вином, не отрицаю, нет
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- The Meditation Of The Old Fisherman by William Butler Yeats
- Ballade Of The Muse poem – Andrew Lang poems
- A Meditation In Time Of War by William Butler Yeats
- The Wild Goose’s Will by Mike Yuan
- It is a Show by Rixa White
- Old Times by Rixa white
- The Fall by Russell Edson
- A Working Party by Siegfried Sassoon
- haiku
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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.