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The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia

Philip Sidney

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1590
Pages
Pages 850

Two shepherds stand on the sands of Laconia at first light, mourning a woman who has sailed away, and they mourn her so beautifully that the sea seems to hold still and listen. Everything in Sidney's Arcadia arrives like that.

It was in the time that the earth begins to put on her new apparel against the approach of her lover
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia, Philip Sidney

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