Love

Amoretti: Sonnet LIV

by Edmund Spenser 1552–1599

From Amoretti

Love

Of this worlds theatre in which we stay,
My Love, like the spectator, ydly sits,
Beholding me, that all the pageants play,
Disguysing diversly my troubled wits.
Sometimes I ioy when glad occasion fits,
And mask in myrth lyke to a comedy:
Soone after, when my ioy to sorrow flits,
I waile, and make my woes a tragedy.
Yet she, beholding me with constant eye,
Delights not in my merth, nor rues my smart:
But when I laugh, she mocks; and when I cry,
She laughs, and hardens evermore her hart.
What then can move her? If nor merth, nor mone,
She is no woman, but a sencelesse stone.

MLA

Spenser, Edmund. “Amoretti: Sonnet LIV.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/spenser/58/.

Chicago

Spenser, Edmund. “Amoretti: Sonnet LIV.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/spenser/58/.

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