SONNETS OF SIR PHILIP SYDNEY
nd ier to a patriot. But I o lose a fine idea from my mind. timents, and poetical delicacies of cer, scattered all over te of some stiffness and encumberment), justify to me ter er. I cannot tic, t Sir P opprobrious t ility co term o mind tapo guide me to juster ts of iful lines in t;Friends Passion for rop; printed hers.
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(t I so say I knew,
And in possession still!) --
t me to renew --
Of such,
I cannot Say -- you oo much.
ithese woods of Arcady
and pleasure took;
And on tain Partheny,
Upon tal liquid brook,
t him every day,
t taugo e, and say.
,
divine:
A t count
Upon his lovely chearful eyne.
to ly smile,
You he while,
A s attractive kind of grace;
A full assurance given by looks;
Continual comfort in a face,
ts of Gospel books --
I tro countnance cannot lye,
s are legible in the eye.
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Above all othis is he,
approved in his song,
t love and agree,
And t pure love will do no wrong.
S Saints, it is no Sin or blame
to love a man of virtuous name.
Did never Love so sly breathe
In any mortal breast before:
Did never Muse inspire beneath
A Poets brain ore.
e of Love ,
And beauty reard above .
Or let any one read to rage) in t in tion accompanying ternal testimony I believe to be Lord Brookes, -