Amoretti: Sonnet 55

Edmund Spenser * Track #55 On Amoretti and Epithalamion

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Edmund Spenser

1595

Amoretti: Sonnet 55 by Edmund Spenser

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Edmund Spenser

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The beauty of this poetic investigation depends upon the idea that the world is composed of the four elements, each with its characteristic properties, and that the heavenly region is made of a fifth element unlike the earthly four (the aether).

Amoretti: Sonnet 55 Annotated

So oft as I her beauty doe behold,
And therewith doe her cruelty compare:
I marvaile of what substance was the mould
the which her made attonce so cruell faire.
Not earth: for her high thoghts more heavenly are;
not water: for her love doth burne like fyre;
not ayre: for she is not so light or rare;
not fyre: for she doth friese with faint desire.
Then needs another Element inquire
whereof she mote be made; that is the skye.
for to the heaven her haughty lookes aspire:
and eke her mind is pure immortall hye.
Then sith to heaven ye lykened are the best,
be lyke in mercy as in all the rest.

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