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''Like as the culver on the bared bough
Sits mourning for the absence of her mate,''
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Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), British poet. Amoretti; LXXXIX. Like as the culver (l. 1-2). . .
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''Dark is my day whiles her fair light I miss,
And dead my life, that wants such lively bliss.''
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Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), British poet. Amoretti; LXXXIX. Like as the culver (l. 13-14). . .
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''Dark is the world, where your light shined never;
Well is he born, that may behold you ever.''
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Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), British poet. Amoretti; V. More than most fair (l. 13-14). . .
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''But angels come to lead frail minds to rest
In chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound.
You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within;
You stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak;''
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Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), British poet. Amoretti; VIII. More than most fair (l. 7-10). . .
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''More than most fair, full of the living fire,
Kindled above unto the Maker near;''
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Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), British poet. Amoretti; VIII. More than most fair (l. 1-2). . .
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''But that which fairest is but few behold:
Her mind, adorned with virtues manifold.''
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Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), British poet. Amoretti; XV. Ye tradeful merchants (l. 13-14). . .
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''Ye tradeful Merchants, that, with weary toil,
Do seek most precious things to make your gain,
And both the Indias of their treasure spoil,''
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Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), British poet. Amoretti; XV. Ye tradeful merchants (l. 1-3). . .
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''My Love is like to ice, and I to fire:
How comes it then that this her cold so great
Is not dissolved through my so hot desire,
But harder grows the more I her entreat?''
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Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), British poet. Amoretti; XXX. My love is like to ice (l. 1-4). . .
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''Such is the power of love in gentle mind,
That it can alter all the course of kind.''
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Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), British poet. Amoretti; XXX. My love is like to ice (l. 13-14). . .
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''What guyle is this, that those her golden tresses,
She doth attyre under a net of gold:''
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Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), British poet. Amoretti; XXXVII. What guyle is this (l. 1-2). . .
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