| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Amoretti and Epithalamion | | Sonnet XXXIX. Sweet smile! the daughter of the Queen of Love | | Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
| | | SWEET smile! the daughter of the Queen of Love, | |
| Expressing all thy mother’s powerful art. | |
| With which she wonts to temper angry Jove, | |
| When all the gods he threats with thundering dart: | |
| Sweet is thy virtue, as thy self sweet art. | 5 |
| For, when on me thou shined’st late in sadness, | |
| A melting pleasance ran through every part, | |
| And me revived with heart-robbing gladness, | |
| Whilst rapt with joy resembling heavenly madness, | |
| My soul was ravish’d quite as in a trance; | 10 |
| And, feeling thence, no more her sorrow’s sadness, | |
| Fed on the fulness of that cheerful glance, | |
| More sweet than nectar, or ambrosial meat, | |
| Seem’d every bit which thenceforth I did eat. | | | | |
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