![]() ![]() ![]() They both point out that the moon is solitary, and they both ask questions of the moon, the chief of which concerns constancy and hopeless love. Sidney and Shelley both observe the pallor of the moon – as you might expect – but they both also remark on the sad or weary way the moon climbs the night sky. In Sidney’s sonnet sequence Astrophil and Stella, Sidney addresses that heavenly body: ‘With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb’st the skies’. We think this little poem is a homage to, or recasting of, a sonnet by the Elizabethan poet Sir Philip Sidney (1554-86), who wrote a famous poem addressed to the moon. That finds no object worth its constancy? ![]() Of climbing heaven and gazing on the earth,Īmong the stars that have a different birth, ![]()
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