Astrophil
and Stella, Sonnet
90
Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame,
Who seek, who hope, who love, who
live but
thee;
Thine eyes my pride, thy lips mine
history;
If thou praise not, all other praise is shame.
Nor so ambitious am I as to frame
A nest for my young praise in laurel
tree;
In truth, I swear, I wish not there
should
be
Graved in mine epitaph a poet's name.
Ne if I would, could I just title make,
That any laud to me thereof should
grow,
Without my plumes from others' wings I take.
For nothing from my wit or will doth flow,
Since all my words thy beauty doth
endite,
And love doth hold my hand, and
makes me
write.