Amoretti: Sonnet 59

Edmund Spenser * Track #59 On Amoretti and Epithalamion

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Amoretti: Sonnet 59 by Edmund Spenser

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After sonnet 58 (written by the lady?) taking the wrong kind of self-assurance to task, follows this sonnet in praise of the right kind of self-assurance, the lady’s kind.

She is not bending from fiend to foe and back, but is constant and unchanging—her best quality, but also precisely what has mad...

Amoretti: Sonnet 59 Annotated

Thrise happie she, that is so well assured
Unto her selfe and setled so in hart:
that nether will for better be allured,
ne feard with worse to any chaunce to start,
But like a steddy ship, doth strongly part
the raging waves and keepes her course aright:
ne ought for tempest doth from it depart,
ne ought for fayrer weathers false delight.
Such selfe assurance need not feare the spight
of grudging foes, ne favour seek of friends:
but in the stay of her owne stedfast might,
nether to one her selfe nor other bends.
Most happy she that most assured doth rest,
but he most happy who such one loves best.

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