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Edmund Spenser's Poetry, by written

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  • Poem 1
    YE learned sisters which haue oftentimes
    beene to me ayding, others to adorne:
    19 lines
  • Poem 10
    TEll me ye merchants daughters did ye see
    So fayre a creature in your towne before,
    19 lines
  • Poem 11
    BVt if ye saw that which no eyes can see,
    The inward beauty of her liuely spright,
    20 lines
  • Poem 12
    OPen the temple gates vnto my loue,
    Open them wide that she may enter in,
    20 lines
  • Poem 14
    NOw al is done; bring home the bride againe,
    bring home the triumph of our victory,
    20 lines
  • Poem 15
    RIng ye the bels, ye yong men of the towne,
    And leaue your wonted labors for this day:
    18 lines
  • Poem 16
    AH when will this long vveary day haue end,
    and lende me leaue to come vnto my loue?
    19 lines
  • Poem 17
    Now ceasse ye damsels your delights forepast,
    Enough is it, that all the day was youres:
    20 lines
  • Poem 18
    NOw welcome night, thou night so long expected,
    that long daies labour doest at last defray,
    20 lines
  • Poem 19
    LEt no lamenting cryes, nor dolefull teares,
    Be heard all night within nor yet without:
    20 lines
  • Poem 2
    EArly before the worlds light giuing lampe,
    His golden beame vpon the hils doth spred,
    19 lines
  • Poem 20
    BVt let stil Silence trew night watches keepe,
    That sacred peace may in assurance rayne,
    20 lines
  • Poem 21
    WHo is the same, which at my window peepes?
    Or whose is that faire face, that shines so bright,
    19 lines
  • Poem 22
    ANd thou great Iuno, which with awful might
    the lawes of wedlock still dost patronize,
    20 lines
  • Poem 23
    And ye high heauens, the temple of the gods,
    In which a thousand torches flaming bright
    19 lines
  • Poem 24
    SOng made in lieu of many ornaments,
    With which my loue should duly haue bene dect,
    8 lines
  • Poem 3
    BRing with you all the Nymphes that you can heare
    both of the riuers and the forrests greene:
    20 lines
  • Poem 4
    YE Nymphes of Mulla which with carefull heed,
    The siluer scaly trouts doe tend full well,
    19 lines
  • Poem 5
    WAke now my loue, awake; for it is time,
    The Rosy Morne long since left Tithones bed,
    19 lines
  • Poem 6
    My loue is now awake out of her dreame,
    and her fayre eyes like stars that dimmed were
    19 lines
  • Poem 7
    NOw is my loue all ready forth to come,
    Let all the virgins therefore well awayt,
    20 lines
  • Poem 8
    HArke how the Minstrels gin to shrill aloud,
    Their merry Musick that resounds from far,
    20 lines
  • Poem 9
    LOe where she comes along with portly pace,
    Lyke Phoebe from her chamber of the East,
    20 lines
  • Poem 90
    IN youth before I waxed old.
    The blynd boy Venus baby,
    15 lines
  • Poem 91
    I Saw in secret to my Dame,
    How little Cupid humbly came:
    9 lines
  • Poem 92
    VPon a day as loue lay sweetly slumbring,
    all in his mothers lap:
    11 lines
  • Poem 93
    TO whom his mother closely smiling sayd,
    twixt earnest and twixt game:
    11 lines
  • Poem 94
    NAthlesse the cruell boy not so content,
    would needs the fly pursue:
    11 lines
  • Poem 95
    VNto his mother straight he weeping came,
    and of his griefe complayned:
    11 lines
  • Poem 96
    SHe tooke him streight full pitiously lamenting,
    and wrapt him in her smock:
    11 lines
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