Sonnet 100: Oh Tears, No Tears
Sir Philip Sidney 1554 (Penshurst, Kent) – 1586 (Zutphen)
Oh tears, no tears, but rain from Beauty's skies,
Making those lilies and those roses grow,
Which aye most fair, now more than most fair show,
While graceful Pity Beauty beautifies.
Oh honeyed sighs, which from that breast do rise,
Whose pants do make unspilling cream to flow,
Wing'd with whose breath, so pleasing zephyrs blow
As can refresh the hell where my soul fries.
Oh plaints conserv'd in such a sugar'd phrase
That Eloquence itself envies your praise
While sobb'd-out words a perfect music give.
Such tears, sighs, plaints, no sorrow is but joy:
Or if such heav'nly signs must prove annoy,
All mirth farewell, let me in sorrow live.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABBA ABBA CCX DDX |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 650 |
Words | 113 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
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