Love
Amoretti: Sonnet LXXVII
From Amoretti
Was it a dreame, or did I see it playne?
A goodly table of pure yvory,
All spred with juncats fit to entertayne
The greatest prince with pompous roialty:
Mongst which, there in a silver dish did ly
Two golden apples of unvalewd price,
Far passing those which Hercules came by,
Or those which Atalanta did entice;
Exceeding sweet, yet voyd of sinfull vice;
That many sought, yet none could ever taste;
Sweet fruit of pleasure, brought from Paradice
By Love himselfe, and in his garden plaste.
Her brest that table was, so richly spredd;
My thoughts the guests, which would thereon have fedd.
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Spenser, Edmund. “Amoretti: Sonnet LXXVII.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/spenser/81/.
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Spenser, Edmund. “Amoretti: Sonnet LXXVII.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/spenser/81/.
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