Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79.
Sir Philip Sidney
By Charlotte Fiske Bates (1838–1916)T
Rises so high that all the world can see;
Self-abnegating grace has here revealed
How godlike in his suffering man may be.
When, all his parching agonies denied,
From his own lips he sent the untouched draught
To him who likewise languished at his side!
And knightly fame that charmed the Virgin Queen,
But Zutphen lifts him higher still than they,
And gives his memory the brightest green!