William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.
Song: Doubt you to whom my Muse these notes intendethSir Philip Sidney (15541586)
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Which now my breast o’ercharged to music lendeth
To you! to you! all song of praise is due:
Only in you, my song begins and endeth.
Who keeps the key of Nature’s chiefest treasure?
To you! to you! all song of praise is due:
Only for you, the heaven forgat all measure.
Who womankind at once both decks and staineth?
To you! to you! all song of praise is due:
Only by you, Cupid his crown maintaineth.
Who else, for whom Fame worthy trumpets wanteth?
To you! to you! all song of praise is due:
Only to you, her sceptre Venus granteth.
Whose grace is such, that when it chides doth cherish?
To you! to you! all song of praise is due:
Only through you, the tree of life doth flourish.
Who long-dead beauty with increase reneweth?
To you! to you! all song of praise is due:
Only at you, all envy hopeless rueth.
Who makes a man live, then glad when he dieth?
To you! to you! all song of praise is due:
Only of you, the flatterer never lieth.
Whose force but yours the bolts of beauty thunders?
To you! to you! all song of praise is due:
Only with you, not miracles are wonders.
Which now my breast o’ercharged to music lendeth?
To you! to you! all song of praise is due:
Only in you, my song begins and endeth.