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Philip Sidney - Sonnet 87: When I Was Forc`d From Stella
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When I was forc`d from Stella, ever dear 
Stella, food of my thoughts, heart of my heart; 
Stella, whose eyes make all my tempests clear, 
By iron laws of duty to depart: 

Alas I found that she with me did smart; 
I saw that tears did in her eyes appear; 
I saw that sighs her sweetest lips did part, 
And her sad words my saddest sense did hear. 

For me, I wept to see pearls scatter`d so; 
I sigh`d her sighs, and wailed for her woe, 
Yet swam in joy, such love in her was seen. 

Thus, while th`effect most bitter was to me, 
And nothing than the couse more sweet could be, 
I had been vex`d, if vex`d I had not been.
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