Amoretti: Sonnet 17

Edmund Spenser * Track #17 On Amoretti and Epithalamion

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Edmund Spenser

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Amoretti: Sonnet 17 by Edmund Spenser

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compare the first stanzas of the preface to the third book of The Faerie Queene:

It falles me here to write of Chastity,
That fairest vertue, farre aboue the rest;
For which what needs me fetch from Faery
Forreine ensamples, it to haue exprest?
Sith it is shrined in my Soueraines brest,
And form’d...

Amoretti: Sonnet 17 Annotated

The glorious pourtraict of that Angels face,
Made to amaze weake mens confused skil
and this worlds worthlesse glory to embase,
what pen, what pencill can expresse her fill?
For though he colours could devize at will,
and eke his learned hand at pleasure guide:
least trembling it his workmanship should spill,
yet many wondrous things there are beside.
The sweet eye-glaunces, that like arrowes glide,
the charming smiles, that rob sence from the hart:
the lovely pleasance and the lofty pride,
cannot expressed be by any art.
A greater craftesmans hand thereto doth neede,
that can expresse the life of things indeed.

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