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The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney

In Three Volumes
Sidney, Philip (1554-1586)

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Volume I, [Volume II]
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THE COUNTESSE OF PEMBROKES ARCADIA
  
[dedication]
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[THE FIRST BOOKE OF THE COUNTESSE OF PEMBROKES ARCADIA.]
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THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE COUNTESSE OF PEMBROKES ARCADIA.
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[THE THIRD BOOKE OF THE COUNTESSE OF PEMBROKES ARCADIA.]
  
[Unto a caitife wretch, whom long affliction holdeth]
  
[Amphialus song to Philoclea.]
  
[The Fire to see my woes for anger burneth]
  
[Since that to death is gone the shepheard hie]
  
[Phæbus farewell, a sweeter Saint I serve]
  
[Since that the stormy rage of passions darcke]
  
[Harke plaintfull ghostes, infernall furies harke]
  
[Howe is my Sunn, whose beames are shining bright]
  
[A banisht man, long bard from his desire]
  
[My true love hath my hart, and I have his]
  
[O words which fall like sommer deaw on me]
  
[Do not disdaine, ô streight up raised Pine]
  
[Sweete roote say thou, the roote of my desire]
  
[You goodly pines, which still with brave assent]
  
[Like divers flowers, whose divers beauties serve]
  
[Locke up, faire liddes, the treasure of my harte]
  
[Why doost thou haste away]
  
[O stealing time the subject of delaie]
  
[My Lute which in thy selfe thy tunes enclose]
  
[When two Sunnes do appeare]
  
[Aurora now thou shewst thy blushing light]
  
[Beautie hath force to catche the humane sight.]
  
[Let him drinke this, whome long in armes to folde]
  
[Get hence foule Griefe, the canker of the minde]
  
[Vertue, beawtie, and speach, did strike, wound, charme]
  
[The love which is imprinted in my soule]
  
[Let mother earth now decke her selfe in flowers]
  
[A neighbor mine not long agoe there was]
  
[Who doth desire that chaste his wife should be]
  
[The ladd Philisides]
  
[As I my little flocke on Ister banke]
  
[In faith, good Histor, long is your delay]
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THE FOURTH BOOKE OF THE COUNTESSE OF PEMBROKES ARCADIA.
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THE FIFTH BOOKE OF THE COUNTESSE OF PEMBROKES ARCADIA.
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POEMS FIRST PRINTED IN THE FOLIO OF 1593.
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POEMS FROM THE OLD ARCADIA
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Syr P. S. His Astrophel and Stella.
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OTHER SONNETS OF VARIABLE VERSE.
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CERTAINE SONETS WRITTEN BY SIR PHILIP SIDNEY: Never before printed.
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TWO PASTORELS, MADE BY SIR PHILLIP SIDNEY.
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[THE LADY OF MAY]
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Volume III
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Volume IV

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[Get hence foule Griefe, the canker of the minde]

Get hence foule Griefe, the canker of the minde:
Farewell Complaint, the misers only pleasure:
Away vayne Cares, by which fewe men do finde
Their sought-for treasure.
Ye helplesse Sighes, blowe out your breath to nought,
Teares, drowne your selves, for woe (your cause) is wasted,
Thought, thinke to ende, too long the frute of thought
My minde hath tasted.
But thou, sure Hope, tickle my leaping heart.
Comfort, step thou in place of wonted sadnes.
Fore-felt Desire, begin to savour parts
Of comming gladnes.
Let voice of Sighes into cleare musike runne,
Eyes, let your Teares with gazing now be mended,
In stede of Thought, true pleasure be begunne,
And never ended.
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