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Post by :swapsell
Category :Poems
Author :Edmund Spenser
Date :March 2011
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Click below to download : Amoretti: Sonnet 8 (Format : PDF)
Amoretti: Sonnet 8
More then most faire, full of the living fireKindled above unto the Maker nere,
No eies, but ioyes, in which al powers conspire,
That to the world naught else be counted deare!
Thrugh your bright beams doth not the blinded guest
Shoot out his darts to base affections wound;
But angels come, to lead fraile mindes to rest
In chast desires, on heavenly beauty bound.
You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within;
You stop my toung, and teach my hart to speake;
You calme the storme that passion did begin,
Strong thrugh your cause, but by your vertue weak.
Dark is the world where your light shined never;
Well is he borne that may behold you ever.
(The end)
Edmund Spenser's poem: Amoretti: Sonnet 8
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Long-while I sought to what I might compareThose powrefull eies which lighten my dark spright;Yet find I nought on earth, to which I dareResemble th'ymage of their goodly light.Not to the sun, for they doo shine by night;Nor to the moone, for they are changed never;Nor to the starres, for they have purer sight;Nor to the fire, for they consume not ever;Nor to the lightning, for they still persever;Nor to the diamond, for they are more tender;Nor unto cristall, for nought may them sever;Nor unto glasse, such basenesse mought offend her. Then to the Maker selfe they likest be,
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