Sir Philip Sidney - Astrophel and Stella: Sonnet VI (Some lovers speak when they their Muses entertain,) lyrics

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Sir Philip Sidney - Astrophel and Stella: Sonnet VI (Some lovers speak when they their Muses entertain,) lyrics

Some lovers speak when they their Muses entertain, Of hopes begot by fear, of wot not what desires: Of force of heav'nly beams, infusing hellish pain: Of living d**hs, dear wounds, fair storms, and freezing fires. Some one his song in Jove, and Jove's strange tales attires, Bordered with bulls and swans, powdered with golden rain; Another humbler wit to shepherd's pipe retires, Yet hiding royal blood full oft in rural vein. To some a sweetest plaint a sweetest style affords, While tears pour out his ink, and sighs breathe out his words: His paper pale Despair, and Pain his pen doth move. I can speak what I feel, and feel as much as they, But think that all the map of my state I display, When trembling voice brings forth that I do Stella love.

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