| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Amoretti and Epithalamion | | Sonnet XLV. Leave, lady! in your glass of crystal clean | | Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
| | | LEAVE, lady! in your glass of crystal clean, | |
| Your goodly self for evermore to view: | |
| And in my self, my inward self, I mean, | |
| Most lively like behold your semblance true. | |
| Within my heart, though hardly it can shew | 5 |
| Thing so divine to view of earthly eye, | |
| The fair Idea of your celestial hue | |
| And every part remains immortally: | |
| And were it not that, through your cruelty, | |
| With sorrow dimmed and deformed it were, | 10 |
| The goodly image of your visnomy, | |
| Clearer than crystal, would therein appear. | |
| But, if yourself in me ye plain will see, | |
| Remove the cause by which your fair beams darkened be. | | | | |
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