...(Midsummer Night's Dream, ii. 1, iv. 1.) l. 69. Sir Philip Sidney has a beautiful sonnet beginning ' With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies How silently ! and with how wan a face I ' and Wordsworth took the same two lines as the commencement of another nearly as beautiful. Shelley...

...Sidney's beautiful sonnet addressed To Sleep, or that to the Moon, remarkable for its fine opening : With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies, How silently, and with how wan a face ! NEW SERIES.— VOL. XVI., No. 2. " The best of Sidney's sonnets," said Elia, with something of the...

...whisperings stirr'd, As loath to waken any singing bird. H'iliinm Brffume. WITH HOW SAD STEPS, O MOON ! WITH how sad steps, O Moon ! thou climb'st the skies,...heavenly place That busy Archer his sharp arrows tries ? COUNTRY LlfE. Sure, if that long with love acquainted eyes Can judge of love, thou feel'st a lover's...

...TO THE MOON. SIR PHILIP | With how sad steps, O Moon ! thou climb'st the skies, SIDNEY. 1554—1586. How silently, and with how wan a face ! What ! may...busy Archer his sharp arrows tries ? Sure, if that long with love-acquainted eyes Can judge of love, thou feel'st a lover's case ; I read it in thy looks,...

...felt the pangs of hopeless love, That thus, with such a melancholy grace, 1 ' With how sad steps, 0 moon ! thou climb'st the skies, How silently, and with how wan a face 1 '— Sir P. Sidney. Thou dost pursue thy solitary course ? 99 Has thy Endymion, smooth-faced boy...

...who will, No stab the soul can kill. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. [1554-15850 SONNETS. WITH how sad steps, 0 Moon ! thou climb'st the skies, How silently, and...busy Archer his sharp arrows tries ? Sure, if that long with love acquainted eyes Can judge of love, thou feel'st a lover's case ; I read it in thy looks,...

...who will, No stab the soul can kill. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. [1554-1586.] SONNETS. WITH how sad steps, 0 Moon ! thou climb'st the skies. How silently, and...heavenly place That busy Archer his sharp arrows tries t Sure, if that long with love acquainted eyes Can judge of love, thou feel'st a lover's case; I read...

...joy. IX. THREE SONNETS FROM THE WORKS OF SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. (Born 1554; died 1586.) how sad steps. 0 moon, thou climb'st the skies ! How silently, and...heavenly place That busy archer his sharp arrows tries ? 1 Gray's " Miscellaneous Works of Sidney," p. 87, from " Astrophel and Stella." The first two lines...

...takes leave to adopt the pale Dian into a fellowship with his mortal passions. 1 With how sad steps, oh moon, thou climb'st the skies ; How silently ; and...wan a face ' What ! may it be, that even in heavenly pla^e That busy archer his sharp arrows tries ? Sure, if that long-with-love-acquainted eyes Can judge...

...connection — a sonnet which ought to survive, if only for the exquisite beauty of its initial lines — With how sad steps, O Moon ! thou climb'st the skies, How silently and with how wan a face ! No analysis would enable us to trace the secret which makes the charm ofttiese words ; they are as...