Amoretti: Sonnet 46

Edmund Spenser * Track #46 On Amoretti and Epithalamion

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Amoretti: Sonnet 46 by Edmund Spenser

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This is the sixth sonnet after the “smile” interlude (39 and 40), and it is similar to the sixth sonnet before the smiles, 33, in which the poet defends his abandonment of the Faerie Queene for these love poems (choosing love over duty). In this poem he presents a conflict between higher heavens and...

Amoretti: Sonnet 46 Annotated

When my abodes prefixed time is spent,
My cruell fayre streight bids me wend my way:
but then from heaven most hideous stormes are sent
as willing me against her will to stay.
Whom then shall I or heaven or her obay?
the heavens know best what is the best for me:
but as she will, whose will my life doth sway,
my lower heaven, so it perforce must bee.
But ye high hevens, that all this sorowe see,
sith all your tempests cannot hold me backe:
aswage your stormes, or else both you and she,
will both together me too sorely wrack.
Enough it is for one man to sustaine
the stormes, which she alone on me doth raine.

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