| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Amoretti and Epithalamion | | Sonnet LXIII. After long storms and tempests’ sad assay | | Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
| | | AFTER long storms and tempests’ sad assay, | |
| Which hardly I endured heretofore, | |
| In dread of death, and dangerous dismay, | |
| With which my silly bark was tossed sore: | |
| I do at length descry the happy shore, | 5 |
| In which I hope ere long for to arrive: | |
| Fair soil it seems from far, and fraught with store | |
| Of all that dear and dainty is alive. | |
| Most happy he! that can at last achieve | |
| The joyous safety of so sweet a rest; | 10 |
| Whose least delight sufficeth to deprive | |
| Remembrance of all pains which him oppressed. | |
| All pains are nothing in respect of this; | |
| All sorrows short that gain eternal bliss. | | | | |
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