| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Amoretti and Epithalamion | | Sonnet XL. Mark when she smiles with amiable cheer | | 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, in 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 cheered | |
| With that sunshine, when cloudy looks are cleared. | | | | |
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