| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Amoretti and Epithalamion | | Sonnet LXXVIII. Lacking my love, I go from place to place | | Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
| | | LACKING my love, I go from place to place, | |
| Like a young fawn, that late hath lost the hind; | |
| And seek each where, where last I saw her face, | |
| Whose image yet I carry fresh in mind. | |
| I seek the fields with her late footing signed; | 5 |
| I seek her bower with her late presence deck’d; | |
| Yet nor in field nor bower I her can find; | |
| Yet field and bower are full of her aspect: | |
| But, when mine eyes I thereunto direct, | |
| They idly back return to me again: | 10 |
| And, when I hope to see their true object, | |
| I find myself but fed with fancies vain. | |
| Cease then, mine eyes, to seek herself to see; | |
| And let my thoughts behold herself in me. | | | | |
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