Edmund Spenser
1552–1599
Best-known poems
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Epithalamion
Ye learnèd sisters, which have oftentimes
Beene to me ayding, others to adorne,
Whom ye thought worthy of your gracefull rymes, … -
Prothalamion
Calme was the day, and through the trembling ayre
Sweete-breathing Zephyrus did softly play
A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay … -
Sonnet 30
My love is like to ice, and I to fire:
How comes it then that this her cold is so great
Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, … -
Una and the Lion
From “The Faërie Queene,” Book I. Canto III.
ONE day, nigh wearie of the yrkesome way,
From her unhastie beast she did alight; … -
The Bower of Bliss
From “The Faërie Queene,” Book II. Canto XII.
THERE the most daintie paradise on ground
Itselfe doth offer to his sober eye, … -
One day I wrote her name upon the strand
One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washed it away:
Again I wrote it with a second hand, …
All poems (19)
- A DittySee where she sits upon the grassie greene,
- BeautyFrom “An Hymne in Honor of Beautie”
- EasterMost glorious Lord of Lyfe! that, on this day,
- EpithalamionYe learnèd sisters, which have oftentimes
- From 'Daphnaïda'She fell away in her first ages spring,
- Love to ChristFrom “An Hymne of Heavenly Love”
- My Love is Like to IceMy love is like to ice, and I to fire:
- One day I wrote her name upon the strandBut came the waves and washed it away:
- ProthalamionCalme was the day, and through the trembling ayre
- Sonnet 30My love is like to ice, and I to fire:
- The Bower of BlissFrom “The Faërie Queene,” Book II. Canto XII.
- The Cave of SleepFrom “The Faërie Queene,” Book I. Canto I.
- The Ministry of AngelsFrom “The Faërie Queene,” Book II. Canto 8.
- The Wedding-DayFrom “Epithalamion”
- Una and the LionFrom “The Faërie Queene,” Book I. Canto III.
- Una and the Red Crosse KnightFrom “The Faërie Queene,” Book I. Canto I.
- Whilst it is primeFresh Spring, the herald of loves mighty king,
- “One day I wrote her name”From “Amoretti.” Sonnet LXXV.
