Amoretti: Sonnet 17

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Title:     Amoretti: Sonnet 17
Author: Edmund Spenser [More Titles by Spenser]

The glorious pourtraict of that angels face,
Made to amaze weake mens confused skil,
And this worlds worthlesse glory to embase,
What pen, what pencil!, can expresse her fill?
For though he colours could devize at will,
And eke his learned hand at pleasure guide,
Least, trembling, it his workmanship should spill*,
Yet many wondrous things there are beside:
The sweet eye-glaunces, that like arrowes glide,
The charming smiles, that rob sence from the hart,
The lovely pleasance, and the lofty pride,
Cannot expressed be by any art.
A greater craftesmans hand thereto doth neede,
That can expresse the life of things indeed.

[* _Spill_, spoil.]

[The end]
Edmund Spenser's poem: Amoretti: Sonnet 17

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