| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | Mark When She Smiles | | By Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
| | | MARK when she smiles with amiable cheer, | |
| And tell me whereto can ye liken it— | |
| When on each eyelid sweetly do appear | |
| An hundred Graces as in shade to sit? | |
| Likest it seemeth to my simple wit | 5 |
| Unto the fair sunshine in summer’s day, | |
| That, when a dreadful storm away is flit, | |
| Through the broad world doth spread his goodly ray: | |
| At sight whereof each bird that sits on spray, | |
| And every beast that to his den was fled, | 10 |
| Comes forth afresh out of their late dismay, | |
| And to the light lift up their drooping head. | |
| So my storm-beaten heart likewise is cheer’d | |
| With that sunshine when cloudy looks are clear’d. | | | | |
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