Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AMORETTI: 15, by EDMUND SPENSER


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First Line: Ye trade-full merchants that with weary toil
Last Line: Her mind, adornd with vertues manifold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): Love


Ye tradefull merchants, that with weary toyle
Do seeke most pretious things to make your gain,
And both the Indias of their treasures spoile,
What needeth you to seeke so farre in vaine?
For loe! my love doth in her selfe containe
All this worlds riches that may farre be found:
If saphyres, loe! her eies be saphyres plaine;
If rubies, loe! hir lips be rubies sound;
If pearles, hir teeth be pearles both pure and round;
If yvorie, her forhead yvory weene;
If gold, her locks are finest gold on ground;
If silver, her faire hands are silver sheene:
But that which fairest is but few behold,
Her mind, adornd with vertues manifold.





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