<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=519399" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet 52: A Strife Is Grown</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A strife is grown between Virtue and Love, <br>While each pretends that Stella must be his: <br>Her eyes, her lips, her all, saith Love, do this <br>Since they do wear his badge, most firmly prove. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But Virtue thus that title doth disprove: <br>That Stella (oh dear name) that Stella is <br>That virtuous soul, sure heir of heav'nly bliss, <br>Not this fair outside, which our hearts doth move; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And therefore, though her beauty and her grace <br>Be Love's indeed, in Stella's self he may <br>By no pretense claim any manner place. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well, Love, since this demur our suit will stay, <br>Let Virtue have that Stella's self; yet thus <br>That Virtue but that body grant to us.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Philip+Sidney">Philip Sidney</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=519399" data-title="Sonnet 52: A Strife Is Grown de Philip Sidney" data-description="A strife is grown between Virtue and Love, While each pretends that Stella must be his: Her eyes, her lips, her all, saith Love, do this Since they do wear his badge, most firmly prove. But Virtue thus that title doth disprove: That Stella (..."></div> </div> </div>

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