StoryTitle("caps", "Philomela") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The Nightingale, as soon as April bringeth", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Unto her rested sense a perfect waking,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "While late-bare Earth, proud of new clothing, springeth,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sings out her woes, a thorn her song-book making;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "And mournfully bewailing,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Her throat in tunes expresseth", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "What grief her breast oppresseth,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For Tereus' force on her chaste will prevailing.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "O Philomela fair, O take some gladness", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "That here is juster cause of plaintful sadness!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "Thine earth now springs, mine fadeth;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Thy thorn without, my thorn my heart invadeth.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Alas! she hath no other cause of anguish", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But Tereus' love, on her by strong hand wroken;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wherein she suffering, all her spirits languish,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Full womanlike complains her will was broken", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "But I, who, daily craving,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Cannot have to content me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Have more cause to lament me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Since wanting is more woe than too much having.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "O Philomela fair, O take some gladness", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "That here is juster cause of plaintful sadness!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L7", "", "Thine earth now springs, mine fadeth;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L5", "", "Thy thorn without, my thorn my heart invadeth.", "") ?>
Poet("Sir Philip Sidney", "1554-1586") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>