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Poem by Edmund Spenser


Amoretti 40. Mark when she smiles with amiable cheare


Mark when she smiles with amiable cheare,
And tell me whereto can ye lyken it;
When on each eyelid sweetly doe appeare
An hundred Graces as in shade to sit.
Lykest it seemeth, in my simple wit,
Unto the fayre sunshine in somers day,
That, when a dreadfull storme away is flit,
Thrugh the broad world doth spred his goodly ray
At sight whereof, each bird that sits on spray,
And every beast that to his den was fled,
Comes forth afresh out of their late dismay,
And to the light lift up their drouping hed.
  So my storme-beaten hart likewise is cheared
  With that sunshine, when cloudy looks are cleared.



Edmund Spenser


Edmund Spenser's other poems:
  1. Amoretti 67. Lyke as a huntsman, after weary chace
  2. Amoretti 80. After so long a race as I have run
  3. Amoretti 21. Was it the worke of Nature or of Art
  4. Amoretti 87. Since I have lackt the comfort of that light
  5. Amoretti 88. Lyke as the culver on the bared bough


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