| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Amoretti and Epithalamion | | Sonnet XXXIV. Like as a ship, that through the ocean wide | | Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
| | | LIKE as a ship, that through the ocean wide, | |
| By conduct of some star, doth make her way; | |
| When as a storm hath dim’d her trusty guide | |
| Out of her course doth wander far astray! | |
| So I, whose star, that wont with her bright ray | 5 |
| Me to direct, with clouds is over-cast, | |
| Do wander now, in darkness and dismay, | |
| Through hidden perils round about me placed; | |
| Yet hope I well that, when this storm is past, | |
| My Helice, the loadstar of my life, | 10 |
| Will shine again, and look on me at last, | |
| With lovely light to clear my cloudy grief, | |
| Till then I wander careful, comfortless, | |
| In secret sorrow, and sad pensiveness. | | | | |
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