Amoretti: Sonnet 26

Edmund Spenser * Track #26 On Amoretti and Epithalamion

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Amoretti: Sonnet 26 by Edmund Spenser

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This floral catalogue comes four after the Ash Wednesday sonnet 22, just as the other floral catalogue comes four sonnets before the Easter sonnet 68, in sonnet 64.

This catalogue emphasizes the effects of taste and touch, the lower senses that are yet most intense and distracting.

The poet encour...

Amoretti: Sonnet 26 Annotated

Sweet is the Rose, but growes upon a brere;
Sweet is the Junipere, but sharpe his bough;
sweet is the Eglantine, but pricketh nere;
sweet is the firbloome, but his braunches rough.
Sweet is the Cypresse, but his rynd is tough,
sweet is the nut, but bitter is his pill;
sweet is the broome-flowre, but yet sowre enough;
and sweet is Moly, but his root is ill.
So every sweet with soure is tempred still,
that maketh it be coveted the more:
for easie things that may be got at will,
most sorts of men doe set but little store.
Why then should I accoumpt of little paine
that endlesse pleasure shall unto me gaine.

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