Amoretti: Sonnet 15

Edmund Spenser * Track #15 On Amoretti and Epithalamion

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Amoretti: Sonnet 15 by Edmund Spenser

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This poem is an example of the Renaissance poetic form the “blason” / “blazon”–a list transmuting the various parts of a woman’s body by metaphors of extravagant wealth. The secrecy of the final, fairest part, which the fewest see, leads astray “worldly” and vicious readers, for whom “virtue” is a s...

Amoretti: Sonnet 15 Annotated

Ye tradefull Merchants that with weary toyle
do seeke most pretious things to make your gain:
and both the Indias of their treasures spoile,
what needeth you to seeke so farre in vaine?
For loe my love doth in her selfe containe
all this worlds riches that may farre be found:
if Saphyres, loe her eies be Saphyres plaine,
if Rubies, loe hir lips be Rubies found:
If Pearles, hir teeth be pearles both pure and round;
if Yvorie, her forhead yvory weene;
if Gold, her locks are finest gold on ground;
if silver, her faire hands are silver sheene,
But that which fairest is, but few behold,
her mind adornd with vertues manifold.

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