Poem by Edmund Spenser

Amoretti 74. Most happy letters! fram’d by skilfull trade

Most happy letters! fram’d by skilfull trade,
With which that happy name was first desynd
The which three times thrise happy hath me made,
With guifts of body, fortune, and of mind.
The first ray being to me gave by kind,
From mothers womb deriv’d by dew descent:
The second is my sovereigne Queene most kind,
That honour and large richesse to me lent:
The third my Love, my lives last ornament,
By whom my spirit out of dust was raysed,
To speake her prayse and glory excellent,
Of all alive most worthy to be praysed.
  Ye three Elizabeths! for ever live,
  That three such graces did unto me give. 

1. Amoretti 61. The glorious image of the Makers beautie
2. Amoretti 36. Tell me, when shall these wearie woes have end
3. Amoretti 14. Retourne agayne, my forces late dismayd
4. Amoretti 24. When I behold that beauties wonderment
5. Amoretti 10. Unrighteous Lord of love, what law is this

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