In nature apt to like when I did see <br />Beauties, which were of many carats fine, <br />My boiling sprites did thither soon incline, <br />And, Love, I thought that I was full of thee: <br /> <br />But finding not those restless flames in me, <br />Which others said did make their souls to pine, <br />I thought those babes of some pin's hurt did whine, <br />By my love judging what love's pain might be. <br /> <br />But while I thus with this young lion played, <br />Mine eyes (shall I say curst or blest?) beheld <br />Stella; now she is nam'd, need more be said? <br /> <br />In her sight I a lesson new have spell'd, <br />I now hav learn'd Love right, and learn'd even so, <br />As who by being poisoned doth poison know.<br /><br />Sir Philip Sidney<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-xvi-in-nature-apt/
