Love

I saw, in secret to my dame

by Edmund Spenser 1552–1599

From Epigrams and Sonnets

Love

I saw, in secret to my dame
How little Cupid humbly came,
And said to her, “All hayle, my mother!”
But when he saw me laugh, for shame
His face with bashfull blood did flame,
Not knowing Venus from the other.
“Then, never blush, Cupid,” quoth I,
“For many have err’d in this beauty.”

MLA

Spenser, Edmund. “I saw, in secret to my dame.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/spenser/116/.

Chicago

Spenser, Edmund. “I saw, in secret to my dame.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/spenser/116/.

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