| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Amoretti and Epithalamion | | Sonnet LXII. The weary year his race now having run | | Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
| | | THE WEARY year his race now having run, | |
| The new begins his compass’d course anew: | |
| With show of morning mild he hath begun, | |
| Betokening peace and plenty to ensue. | |
| So let us, with this change of weather view, | 5 |
| Change eke our minds, and former lives amend: | |
| The old year’s sins forepast let us eschew, | |
| And fly the faults with which we did offend. | |
| Then shall the new year’s joy forth freshly send, | |
| Into the glooming world, his gladsome ray: | 10 |
| And all these storms, which now his beauty blend, | |
| Shall turn to calms, and timely clear away. | |
| So, likewise, Love! cheer you your heavy spright, | |
| And change old year’s annoy to new delight. | | | | |
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