Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AMORETTI: 45, by EDMUND SPENSER


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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.





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