Sir Philip Sidney

Here you will find the Poem Sonnet 60: When My Good Angel Guides Me of poet Sir Philip Sidney

Sonnet 60: When My Good Angel Guides Me

When my good angel guides me to the place, 
Where all my good I do in Stella see, 
That heav'n of joys throws only down on me 
Thunder'd disdains and lightnings of disgrace: 

But when the rugg'st step of Fortune's race 
Makes me fall from her sight, then sweetly she 
With words, wherein the Muses' treasures be, 
Shows love and pity to my absent case. 

Now I, wit-beaten long by hardest Fate, 
So dull am, that I cannot look into 
The ground of this fierce Love and lovely hate: 

Then some good body tell me how I do, 
Whose presence absence, absence presence is; 
Blist in my curse, and cursed in my bliss.