Sonnet III: With how sad steps
by Sir Philip Sidney
With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb’st the skies!
How silently, and with how wan a face!
What! may it be that even in heavenly place
That busy archer his sharp arrows tries?
Sure, if that long-with-love-acquainted eyes
Can judge of love, thou feel’st a lover’s case:
I read it in thy looks; thy languished grace
To me, that feel the like, thy state descries.
Then, even of fellowship, O Moon, tell me,
Is constant love deemed there but want of wit?
Are beauties there as proud as here they be?
Do they above love to be loved, and yet
Those lovers scorn whoom that love doth possess?
Do they call ‘virtue’ there; ungratefulness?
End of the poem
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- Composed At The Same Time And On The Same Occasion by William Wordsworth
- Ay, workman, make me a dream, by Stephen Crane
- And love has changed to kindliness by Rupert Brooke
- Interpret The Light
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- The Essay on Agriculture by Abraham Cowley
- To Charles Cowden Clarke poem – John Keats poems
- Николай Заболоцкий – Старость
- Wet City Night
- Millions of Us poem – Alice Notley
- The Secret Garden by Rita Dove
- Зинаида Александрова – Большая ложка
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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.