StoryTitle("caps", "Voices at~the~Window") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who is it that, this dark night,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Underneath my window plaineth?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It is one who from thy sight", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Being, ah, exiled, disdaineth", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Every other vulgar light.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Why, alas, and are you he?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Be not yet those fancies changéd?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dear, when you find change in me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Though from me you be estrangéd,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let my change to ruin be.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Well, in absence this will die:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Leave to see, and leave to wonder.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Absence sure will help, if I", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Can learn how myself to sunder", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From what in my heart doth lie.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But time will these thoughts remove;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Time doth work what no man knoweth.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Time doth as the subject prove:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With time still the affection groweth", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the faithful turtle-dove.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What if you new beauties see?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Will not they stir new affection?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I will think they pictures be", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "(Image-like, of saints' perfection)", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Poorly counterfeiting thee.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But your reason's purest light", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Bids you leave such minds to nourish.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dear, do reason no such spite!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Never doth thy beauty flourish", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "More than in my reason's sight.", "") ?>
Poet("Sir Philip Sidney", "1554-1586") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>