| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Amoretti and Epithalamion | | Sonnet LXXXVII. Since I have lack’d the comfort of that light | | Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
| | | SINCE I have lack’d the comfort of that light, | |
| The which was wont to lead my thoughts astray; | |
| I wander as in darkness of the night, | |
| Afraid of every danger’s least dismay. | |
| Ne aught I see, though in the clearest day, | 5 |
| When others gaze upon their shadows vain, | |
| But th’ only image of that heavenly ray, | |
| Whereof some glance doth in mine eye remain. | |
| Of which beholding the Idæa plain, | |
| Through contemplation of my purest part, | 10 |
| With light thereof I do myself sustain, | |
| And thereon feed my love-affamish’d heart: | |
| But, with such brightness whilst I fill my mind, | |
| I starve my body, and mine eyes do blind. | | | | |
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