Amoretti: Sonnet 44

Edmund Spenser * Track #44 On Amoretti and Epithalamion

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Edmund Spenser

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Amoretti: Sonnet 44 by Edmund Spenser

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The poet compares himself to a failed Orpheus: while Orpheus could sooth civil strife by his music among the Argonauts, the poet is unable to calm the warfare in his soul, because his harp is out of tune.

Amoretti: Sonnet 44 Annotated

When those renoumed noble Peres of Greece,
thrugh stubborn pride amongst themselues did jar
forgetfull of the famous golden fleece,
then Orpheus with his harp theyr strife did bar.
But this continuall cruell civill warre,
the which my selfe against my selfe doe make:
whilest my weak powres of passions warreid arre,
no skill can stint nor reason can aslake.
But when in hand my tunelesse harp I take,
then doe I more augment my foes despight:
and griefe renew, and passions doe awake,
to battaile fresh against my selfe to fight.
Mongst whome the more I seeke to settle peace,
the more I fynd their malice to increace.

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