Sonnet XLIIII (Edmund Spenser Poems)
When those renoumed noble Peres of Greece, thrugh stubborn pride amongst theselues did iar forgetfull of the famous golden fleece, ...
Edmund Spenser Poems (171 Poems)
Sonnet LXIII (Edmund Spenser Poems)
AFter long stormes and tempests sad assay, Which hardly I endured heretofore: in dread of death and daungerous dismay, with ...
Sonnet LXXXVIII (Edmund Spenser Poems)
SInce I haue lackt the comfort of that light, The which was wont to lead my thoughts astray: I wander ...
Sonnet XXXIII (Edmund Spenser Poems)
GReat wrong I doe, I can it not deny, to that most sacred Empresse my dear dred, not finishing her ...
Sonnet LXXXV (Edmund Spenser Poems)
THe world that cannot deeme of worthy things, when I doe praise her, say I doe but flatter: so does ...
Ice and Fire (Edmund Spenser Poems)
My love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great ...
The Shepheardes Calender: April (Edmund Spenser Poems)
APRILL: Ægloga QuartaTHENOT & HOBBINOLL Tell me good Hobbinoll, what garres thee greete? What? hath some Wolfe thy tender Lambes ...
Mutability (Edmund Spenser Poems)
When I bethink me on that speech whilere, Of Mutability, and well it weigh: Me seems,that though she all unworthy ...
Sonnet L (Edmund Spenser Poems)
LOng languishing in double malady, of my harts wound and of my bodies greife: there came to me a leach ...
Sonnet LXVIII (Edmund Spenser Poems)
MOst glorious Lord of lyfe that on this day, Didst make thy triumph ouer death and sin: and hauing harrowd ...
Poem 12 (Edmund Spenser Poems)
OPen the temple gates vnto my loue, Open them wide that she may enter in, And all the postes adorne ...
Sonnet LXXXIX (Edmund Spenser Poems)
LYke as the Culuer on the bared bough, Sits mourning for the absence of her mate; and in her songs ...
Sonnet XLIII (Edmund Spenser Poems)
SHall I then silent be or shall I speake? And if I speake, her wrath renew I shall: and if ...
Sonnet VII (Edmund Spenser Poems)
Fayre eyes, the myrrour of my mazed hart, what wondrous vertue is contaynd in you the which both lyfe and ...
Sonnet XII (Edmund Spenser Poems)
ONe day I sought with her hart-thrilling eies, to make a truce and termes to entertaine: all fearlesse then of ...
The Faerie Queene: Book I, Canto I (Edmund Spenser Poems)
THE FIRST BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QUEENE Contayning THE LEGENDE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE RED CROSSE, OR OF HOLINESSEProemi ...
Amoretti LXVIII: Most Glorious Lord of Life (Edmund Spenser Poems)
Most glorious Lord of life, that on this day, Didst make thy triumph over death and sin: And having harrow'd ...
Sonnet LX (Edmund Spenser Poems)
THey that in course of heauenly spheares are skild, To euery planet point his sundry yeare: in which her circles ...
Sonnet III (Edmund Spenser Poems)
THe souerayne beauty which I doo admyre, witnesse the world how worthy to be prayzed: the light wherof hath kindled ...
From ‘Daphnaida’ (Edmund Spenser Poems)
SHE fell away in her first ages spring, Whil'st yet her leafe was greene, and fresh her rinde, And whil'st ...
Poem 2 (Edmund Spenser Poems)
EArly before the worlds light giuing lampe, His golden beame vpon the hils doth spred, Hauing disperst the nights vnchearefull ...
Sonnet XIII (Edmund Spenser Poems)
IN that proud port, which her so goodly graceth, whiles her faire face she reares vp to the skie: and ...
Poem 6 (Edmund Spenser Poems)
My loue is now awake out of her dreame, and her fayre eyes like stars that dimmed were With darksome ...
Sonnet XXXI (Edmund Spenser Poems)
Ah why hath nature to so hard a hart, giuen so goodly giftes of beauties grace? whose pryde depraues each ...
Sonnet XXXVI (Edmund Spenser Poems)
TEll me when shall these wearie woes haue end, Or shall their ruthlesse torment neuer cease: but al my dayes ...
Poem 1 (Edmund Spenser Poems)
YE learned sisters which haue oftentimes beene to me ayding, others to adorne: Whom ye thought worthy of your gracefull ...
A Ditty (Edmund Spenser Poems)
In praise of Eliza, Queen of the Shepherds SEE where she sits upon the grassie greene, (O seemely sight!) Yclad ...
Sonnet IX (Edmund Spenser Poems)
LOng-while I sought to what I might compare those powrefull eies, which lighte my dark spright, yet find I nought ...
Sonnet LXXIX (Edmund Spenser Poems)
MEn call you fayre, and you doe credit it, For that your selfe ye dayly such doe see: but the ...
Sonnet LXXX (Edmund Spenser Poems)
AFter so long a race as I haue run Through Faery land, which those six books copile giue leaue to ...