Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AMORETTI: 46, by EDMUND SPENSER


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First Line: When my abode's prefixed time is spent
Last Line: The stormes which she alone on me doth raine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Heaven


When my abode's prefixed time is spent,
My cruell fayre streight bids me wend my way:
But then from heaven most hideous stormes are sent,
As willing me against her will to stay.
Whom then shall I, or heaven or her, obay?
The heavens know best what is the best for me:
But as she will, whose will my life doth sway,
My lower heaven, so it perforce must bee.
But ye high hevens, that all this sorowe see,
Sith all your tempests cannot hold me backe,
Aswage your stormes, or else both you and she
Will both together me too sorely wrack.
Enough it is for one man to sustaine
The stormes which she alone on me doth raine.





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