Love
Amoretti: Sonnet LXIV
From Amoretti
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 their leaves be shed;
Her nipples lyke young blossomd jessemynes.
Such fragrant flowres doe give most odorous smell;
But her sweet odour did them all excell.
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Spenser, Edmund. “Amoretti: Sonnet LXIV.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/spenser/68/.
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Spenser, Edmund. “Amoretti: Sonnet LXIV.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/spenser/68/.
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