Amoretti: Sonnet 45

Edmund Spenser * Track #45 On Amoretti and Epithalamion

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Edmund Spenser

1595

Amoretti: Sonnet 45 by Edmund Spenser

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Edmund Spenser

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A plea to the lady to submit to be loved so that she can see her image clearly in her lover’s soul.

The lover thinks the image is darkened because of her cruelty. If, however, it is darkened by his own base passions, then her resistance to him, her refusal to “remove the cause” on her part, will ir...

Amoretti: Sonnet 45 Annotated

Leave lady in your glasse of christall clene,
Your goodly selfe for evermore to vew:
and in my selfe, my inward selfe I meane,
most lively lyke behold your semblant trew.
Within my hart, though hardly it can shew
thing so divine to vew of earthly eye:
the fayre Idea of your celestiall hew,
and every part remaines immortally:
And were it not that through your cruelty,
with sorrow dimmed and deformd it were:
the goodly ymage of your visnomy,
clearer then christall would therein appere.
But if your selfe in me ye playne will see,
remove the cause by which your fayre beames darkned be.

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