Sonnet IIII from Edmund Spenser's sonnet sequence entitled Amoretti and Epithalamion

 
NEW yeare forth looking out of Ianus gate,
  Doth seeme to promise hope of new delight:
  and bidding th' old Adieu, his passed date
  bids all old thoughts to die in dumpish spright.
And calling forth out of sad Winters night,
  fresh loue, that long hath slept in cheerlesse bower:
  wils him awake, and soone about him dight
  his wanton wings and darts of deadly power.
For lusty spring now in his timely howre,
  is ready to come forth him to receiue:
  and warnes the Earth with diuers colord flowre,
  to decke hir selfe, and her faire mantle weaue.
Then you faire flowre, in whom fresh youth doth raine,
  prepare your selfe new loue to entertaine.

 

English 2273 - Winter 2005

The text of Sonnet IIII reproduced here is taken from Richard Bear's Renascence Editions site.

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This page last updated January 19, 2004
by R. Cunningham