Since Shunning Pain, I Ease Can Never Find

Sir Philip Sidney

Since shunning pain, I ease can never find;
Since bashful dread seeks where he knows me harmed;
Since will is won, and stopped ears are charmed;
Since force doth faint, and sight doth make me blind;
Since loosing long, the faster still I bind;
Since naked sense can conquer reason armed;
Since heart, in chilling fear, with ice is warmed;
In fine, since strife of thought but mars the mind,
I yield, O Love, unto thy loathed yoke,
Yet craving law of arms, whose rule doth teach,
That, hardly used, who ever prison broke,
In justice quit, of honour made no breach:
Whereas, if I a grateful guardian have,
Thou art my lord, and I thy vowed slave.

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• Sir Philip Sidney : Sir Philip Sidney's Sonnet In Reply To A Sonnet By Sir Edward Dyer
• Sir Philip Sidney : Sleep
• Sir Philip Sidney : Song
• Sir Philip Sidney : Song From Arcadia
• Sir Philip Sidney : Song To The Tune Of 'basciami Vita Mia.'
• Sir Philip Sidney : Song To The Tune Of 'non Credo Gia Che Piu Infelice Amante.'
• Sir Philip Sidney : Sonnet I: Loving In Truth
• Sir Philip Sidney : Sonnet Ii: Not At First Sight
• Sir Philip Sidney : Sonnet Iii: With How Sad Steps
• Sir Philip Sidney : Sonnet Iv: Virtue, Alas

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• Sir Philip Sidney : Ring Out Your Bells
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• Sir Philip Sidney : Philomela
• Sir Philip Sidney : Ode ( When, To My Deadly Pleasure )
• Sir Philip Sidney : My True Love Hath My Heart, And I Have His
• Sir Philip Sidney : Must Love Lament?
• Sir Philip Sidney : Loving In Truth, And Fain In Verse My Love To Show
• Sir Philip Sidney : Leave Me, O Love Which Reachest But To Dust
• Sir Philip Sidney : From Earth To Heaven
• Sir Philip Sidney : Dispraise Of A Courtly Life