Amoretti

by Edmund Spenser

  1. "Happy, ye leaves! when as those lilly hands"
  2. "Unquiet thought! whom at the first I bred"
  3. "The soverayne beauty which I doo admyre,"
  4. "New yeare, forth looking out of Ianus gate,"
  5. "Rudely thou wrongest my deare harts desire,"
  6. "Be nought dismayd that her unmoved mind"
  7. "Fayre eyes! the myrrour of my mazed hart,"
  8. "More then most faire, full of the living fire"
  9. "Long-while I sought to what I might compare"
  10. "Unrighteous Lord of love, what law is this,"
  11. "Dayly when I do seeke and sew for peace,"
  12. "One day I sought with her hart-thrilling eies"
  13. "In that proud port which her so goodly graceth,"
  14. "Retourne agayne, my forces late dismayd,"
  15. "Ye tradefull Merchants, that, with weary toyle,"
  16. "One day as I unwarily did gaze"
  17. "The glorious pourtraict of that angels face,"
  18. "The rolling wheele that runneth often round,"
  19. "The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring,"
  20. "In vaine I seeke and sew to her for grace,"
  21. "Was it the worke of Nature or of Art,"
  22. "This holy season, fit to fast and pray,"
  23. "Penelope, for her Ulisses sake,"
  24. "When I behold that beauties wonderment,"
  25. "How long shall this lyke-dying lyfe endure,"
  26. "Sweet is the rose, but growes upon a brere;"
  27. "Faire Proud! now tell me, why should faire be proud,"
  28. "The laurel-leafe which you this day doe weare"
  29. "See! how the stubborne damzell doth deprave"
  30. "My Love is lyke to yse, and I to fyre:"
  31. "Ah! why hath Nature to so hard a hart"
  32. "The paynefull smith with force of fervent heat"
  33. "Great wrong I doe, I can it not deny,"
  34. "Lyke as a ship, that through the ocean wyde"
  35. "My hungry eyes, through greedy covetize"
  36. "Tell me, when shall these wearie woes have end;"
  37. "What guyle is this, that those her golden tresses"
  38. "Arion, when, through tempests cruel wracke,"
  39. "Sweet smile! the daughter of the Queene of Love,"
  40. "Mark when she smiles with amiable cheare,"
  41. "Is it her nature, or is it her will,"
  42. "The love which me so cruelly tormenteth"
  43. "Shall I then silent be, or shall I speake?"
  44. "When those renoumed noble peres of Greece"
  45. "Leave, Lady! in your glasse of cristall clene"
  46. "When my abodes prefixed time is spent,"
  47. "Trust not the treason of those smyling lookes,"
  48. "Innocent paper! whom too cruell hand"
  49. "Fayre Cruell! why are ye so fierce and cruell?"
  50. "Long languishing in double malady"
  51. "Doe I not see that fayrest ymages"
  52. "So oft as homeward I from her depart,"
  53. "The panther, knowing that his spotted hyde"
  54. "Of this worlds theatre in which we stay,"
  55. "So oft as I her beauty doe behold,"
  56. "Fayre ye be sure, but cruell and unkind,"
  57. "Sweet warriour! when shall I have peace with you?"
  58. "Weake is th’assurance that weake flesh reposeth"
  59. "Thrise happie she that is so well assured"
  60. "They that in course of heavenly spheares are skild"
  61. "The glorious image of the Makers beautie,"
  62. "The weary yeare his race now having run,"
  63. "After long stormes and tempests sad assay,"
  64. "Comming to kisse her lyps, (such grace I found,)"
  65. "The doubt which ye misdeeme, fayre Love, is vaine,"
  66. "To all those happy blessings which ye have"
  67. "Lyke as a huntsman, after weary chace,"
  68. "Most glorious Lord of lyfe! that on this day"
  69. "The famous warriors of the anticke world"
  70. "Fresh Spring, the herald of loves mighty king,"
  71. "I ioy to see how, in your drawen work,"
  72. "Oft when my spirit doth spred her bolder winges,"
  73. "Being my self captyved here in care,"
  74. "Most happy letters! fram’d by skilfull trade,"
  75. "One day I wrote her name upon the strand,"
  76. "Fayre bosome! fraught with vertues richest tresure,
  77. "Was it a dreame, or did I see it playne?"
  78. "Lackyng my Love, I go from place to place,"
  79. "Men call you fayre, and you doe credit it,"
  80. "After so long a race as I have run"
  81. "Fayre is my Love, when her fayre golden haires"
  82. "Ioy of my life! full oft for loving you"
  83. "Let not one sparke of filthy lustfull fyre"
  84. "The world, that cannot deeme of worthy things,"
  85. "Venemous tongue, tipt with vile adders sting,"
  86. "Since I did leave the presence of my Love,"
  87. "Since I have lackt the comfort of that light"
  88. "Lyke as the culver on the bared bough"

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