Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AMORETTI: 16, by EDMUND SPENSER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day as I unwarily did gaze Last Line: Yet as it was, I hardly scap't with paine. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Love – Unrequited; Pain | ||||||||
One day as I unwarily did gaze On those fayre eyes, my loves immortall light, The whiles my stonisht hart stood in amaze, Through sweet illusion of her lookes delight, I mote perceive how, in her glauncing sight, Legions of loves with little wings did fly, Darting their deadly arrowes, fyry bright, At every rash beholder passing by. One of those archers closely I did spy, Ayming his arrow at my very hart: When suddenly, with twincle of her eye, The damzell broke his misintended dart. Had she not so doon, sure I had bene slayne; Yet as it was, I hardly scap't with paine. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JASON THE REAL by TONY HOAGLAND PARTHENOPHIL AND PARTHENOPHE: MADRIGAL 14 by BARNABE BARNES SONNETS IN SHADOWS: 1 by ARLO BATES IN PRAISE OF PAIN by HEATHER MCHUGH THE SYMPATIZERS by JOSEPHINE MILES LEEK STREET by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR |
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