| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Amoretti and Epithalamion | | Sonnet VI. Be naught dismayed that her unmoved mind | | Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
| | | BE naught dismayed that her unmoved mind | |
| Doth still persist in her rebellious pride: | |
| Such love, not like to lusts of baser kind, | |
| The harder won, the firmer will abide. | |
| The dureful oak, whose sap is not yet dried, | 5 |
| Is long ere it conceive the kindling fire; | |
| But, when it once doth burn, it doth divide | |
| Great heat, and makes his flames to heaven aspire. | |
| So hard it is to kindle new desire | |
| In gentle breast, that shall endure for ever: | 10 |
| Deep is the wound, that dints the parts entire | |
| With chaste affects that naught but death can sever; | |
| Then think not long in taking little pain | |
| To knit the knot, that ever shall remain. | | | | |
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