Sir Philip Sidney

Here you will find the Poem Sonnet 101: Stella Is Sick of poet Sir Philip Sidney

Sonnet 101: Stella Is Sick

Stella is sick, and in that sickbed lies 
Sweetness, which breathes and pants as oft as she: 
And Grace, sick too, such fine conclusions tries 
That Sickness brags itself best grac'd to be. 

Beauty is sick, but sick in so fair guise 
That is that paleness Beauty's white we see, 
And Joy, which is inseparate from those eyes, 
Stella now learns (strange case) to weep in thee. 

Love moves thy pain, and like a faithful page, 
As thy looks stir, runs up and down to make 
All folks press'd at thy will thy pain t'assuage. 

Nature with care sweats for her darling's sake, 
Knowing worlds pass, ere she enough can find 
Of such heav'n stuff, to clothe so heav'nly mind.