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Philip Sidney - Sonnet 45: Stella Oft Sees
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Stella oft sees the very face of woe 
Painted in my beclouded stormy face: 
But cannot skill to pity my disgrace, 
Not though thereof the cause herself she know: 

Yet hearing late a fable, which did show 
Of lovers never known, a grievous case, 
Pity thereof gat in her breast such place 
That, from that sea deriv`d, tears` spring did flow. 

Alas, if fancy drawn by imag`d things, 
Though false, yet with free scope more grace doth breed 
Than servant`s wrack, where new doubts honor brings; 

Then think, my dear, that you in me do read 
Of lovers` ruin some sad tragedy: 
I am not I, pity the tale of me.
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