Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AMORETTI: 45, by EDMUND SPENSER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leave, lady! In your glass of crystal clean Last Line: Remove the cause by which your fayre beames darkned be. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Variant Title(s): "leave, Lady, In Your Glasse Of Christall Clene""; Subject(s): Mirrors | ||||||||
Leave, lady, in your glasse of christall clene Your goodly selfe for evermore to vew, And in my selfe, my inward selfe I meane, Most lively lyke behold your semblant trew. Within my hart, though hardly it can shew Thing so divine to vew of earthly eye, The fayre idea of your celestiall hew And every part remaines immortally: And were it not that through your cruelty With sorrow dimmed and deformd it were, The goodly ymage of your visnomy Clearer then christall would therein appere. But if your selfe in me ye playne will see, Remove the cause by which your fayre beames darkned be. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FAT MAN IN THE MIRROR by ROBERT LOWELL THE CLOCK IN THE MIRROR by JOHN CIARDI EXPLICATION OF AN IMAGINARY TEXT by JAMES GALVIN SEEING FOR A MOMENT by DENISE LEVERTOV THE MIRROR IN THE WOODS by KENNETH REXROTH OPPOSITES: 38 by RICHARD WILBUR |
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