When I was forc'd from Stella, ever dear <br />Stella, food of my thoughts, heart of my heart; <br />Stella, whose eyes make all my tempests clear, <br />By iron laws of duty to depart: <br /> <br />Alas I found that she with me did smart; <br />I saw that tears did in her eyes appear; <br />I saw that sighs her sweetest lips did part, <br />And her sad words my saddest sense did hear. <br /> <br />For me, I wept to see pearls scatter'd so; <br />I sigh'd her sighs, and wailed for her woe, <br />Yet swam in joy, such love in her was seen. <br /> <br />Thus, while th'effect most bitter was to me, <br />And nothing than the couse more sweet could be, <br />I had been vex'd, if vex'd I had not been.<br /><br />Sir Philip Sidney<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-87-when-i-was-forc-d-from-stella/
