Sidney

Famous quotes containing the word sidney:

    You that do search for every purling spring
    Which from the ribs of old Parnassus flows,
    And every flower, not sweet perhaps, which grows
    Near thereabouts into your poesy wring;
    You that do dictionary’s method bring
    Into your rhymes, running in rattling rows;
    —Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)

    With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb’st the skies;
    How silently, and with how wan a face.
    —Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)

    those far-fet helps be such
    As do bewray a want of inward touch,
    and sure at length stolen goods do come to light.
    But if, both for your love and skill, your name
    You seek to nurse at fullest breasts of Fame,
    Stella behold, and then begin to indite.
    —Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)