Sir Philip Sidney

Here you will find the Poem Sonnet 57: Woe, Having Made With Many Fights of poet Sir Philip Sidney

Sonnet 57: Woe, Having Made With Many Fights

Woe, having made with many fights his own 
Each sense of mine; each gift, each power of mind 
Grown now his slaves, he forc'd them out to find 
The thoroughest words, fit for Woe's self to groan, 

Hoping that when they might find Stella alone, 
Before she could prepare to be unkind, 
Her soul, arm'd but with such a dainty rind, 
Should soon be pierc'd with sharpness of the moan.

She heard my plaints, and did not only hear, 
But them (so sweet is she) most sweetly sing, 
With that fair breast making woe's darkness clear: 

A pretty case! I hoped her to bring 
To feel my griefs, and she with face and voice 
So sweets my pains, that my pains me rejoice.