| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Amoretti and Epithalamion | | Sonnet LX. They, that in course of heavenly spheres are skilled | | Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
| | | THEY, that in course of heavenly spheres are skilled, | |
| To every planet point his sundry year: | |
| In which her circle’s voyage is fulfilled, | |
| As Mars in threescore years doth run his sphere. | |
| So, since the winged god his planet clear | 5 |
| Began in me to move, one year is spent: | |
| The which doth longer unto me appear, | |
| Than all those forty which my life out-went. | |
| Then by that count, which lovers’ books invent, | |
| The sphere of Cupid forty years contains, | 10 |
| Which I have wasted in long languishment, | |
| That seemed the longer for my greater pains. | |
| But let my love’s fair Planet short her ways, | |
| This year ensuing, or else short my days. | | | | |
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