Amoretti: Sonnet 64

Edmund Spenser * Track #64 On Amoretti and Epithalamion

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Amoretti: Sonnet 64 by Edmund Spenser

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This glorious blazon is similar to the biblical model in the Song of Songs 4. Explaining the connection, the scholar Noam Flinker writes in his book The Song of Songs in English Renaissance Literature: Kisses of their Mouths (2000):

Spenser’s sonnet sequence in general and his famous catalogue of f...

Amoretti: Sonnet 64 Annotated

Comming to kisse her lyps, (such grace I found)
Me seemd I smelt a gardin of sweet flowres:
that dainty odours from them threw around
for damzels fit to decke their lovers bowres.
Her lips did smell lyke unto Gillyflowers,
her ruddy cheekes lyke unto Roses red:
her snowy browes lyke budded Bellamoures,
her lovely eyes lyke Pincks but newly spred,
Her goodly bosome lyke a Strawberry bed,
her neck lyke to a bounch of Cullambynes:
her brest lyke lillyes, ere theyr leaves be shed,
her nipples lyke yong blossomd Jessemynes.
Such fragrant flowres doe give most odorous smell,
but her sweet odour did them all excell.

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