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 circles 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 loves fair Planet short her ways, | |
This year ensuing, or else short my days. | | | |
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