Daily Poem – Amoretti and Epithalamion

Amoretti and Epithalamion

by Spenser, Edmund 1552-1599

SOng made in lieu of many ornaments,
With which my loue should duly haue bene dect,
Which cutting off through hasty accidents,
Ye would not stay your dew time to expect,
But promist both to recompens,
Be vnto her a goodly ornament,
And for short time an endlesse moniment.
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