Sir Philip Sidney

Here you will find the Poem Sonnet 38: This Night While Sleep Begins of poet Sir Philip Sidney

Sonnet 38: This Night While Sleep Begins

This night while sleep begins with heavy wings 
To hatch mine eyes, and that unbitted thought 
Doth fall to stray, and my chief powers are brought 
To leave the scepter of all subject things, 

The first that straight my fancy's error brings 
Unto my mind, is Stella's image, wrought 
By Love's own self, but with so curious draught, 
That she, methinks, not only shines but sings. 

I start, look, hark, but what in clos'd-up sense 
Was held, in open'd sense it flies away, 
Leaving me nought but wailing eloquence: 

I, seeing betters sights in sight's decay, 
Call'd it anew, and wooed sleep again: 
But him her host that unkind guest had slain.