Poems by Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto IV (excerpts)
... Which with their presence faire, the place much beautifide ...
So Let Us Love
... Being, with thy dear blood, clean washed from sin, ...
The Shepheardes Calender: October
... PIERS And when my Gates shall han their bellies layd: ...
The Shepheardes Calender: April
... HOBBINOLL Nor thys, nor that, so muche doeth make me mourne, ...
A Ditty
... In praise of Eliza, Queen of the Shepherds SEE where she sits upon the grassie greene, ...
A Hymn In Honour Of Beauty
... And beautify this sacred hymn of thine:That both to thee, to whom I mean it most, ...
Sonnet V
... scorn of base things, & sdeigne of soule dishonor: ...
Easter
... May live for ever in felicity! And that Thy love we weighing worthily, ...
The Faerie Queene, Book III, Canto VI
... Contayning THE LEGENDE OF BRITOMARTIS ...
Sonnet XXXV
... of that faire sight, that nothing else they brooke, ...
Sonnet XV
... If Pearles, hir teeth be pearles both pure and round ...
Sonnet XXXIIII
... Yet hope I well, that when this storme is past ...
Prothalamion
... Whose dreadful name late through all Spain did thunder, ...
Amoretti III: The Sovereign Beauty
... So when my tongue would speak her praises due, ...
Sonnet LXIIII
... Such fragrant flowres doe giue most odorous smell, ...