Amoretti: Sonnet 83

Edmund Spenser * Track #83 On Amoretti and Epithalamion

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Amoretti: Sonnet 83 by Edmund Spenser

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This is an almost exact reprint of sonnet 35, presumably meant to acquire a slightly different meaning from the context of the lyric sequence. The punctuation and spelling are slightly different in the earlier version, and only one word is changed (as noted, “seeing it” for “having it”).

Amoretti: Sonnet 83 Annotated

My hungry eyes, through greedy covetize
Still to behold the object of theyr payne:
with no contentment can themselves suffize,
but having pine, and having not complayne;
For lacking it, they cannot lyfe sustayne,
and seeing it, they gaze on it the more:
in theyr amazement lyke Narcissus vayne
whose eyes him starv'd: so plenty makes me pore.
Yet are myne eyes so filled with the store
of that fayre sight, that nothing else they brooke:
but loath the things which they did like before,
and can no more endure on them to looke.
All this worlds glory seemeth vayne to me,
and all theyr shewes but shadowes saving she.

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