| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Amoretti and Epithalamion | | Sonnet XXXV. My hungry eyes, through greedy covetise | | Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
| | | MY hungry eyes, through greedy covetise | |
| Still to behold the object of their pain, | |
| With no contentment can themselves suffice; | |
| But, having, pine; and, having not, complain. | |
| For, lacking it, they cannot life sustain; | 5 |
| And, having it, they gaze on it the more; | |
| In their amazement like Narcissus vain, | |
| Whose eyes him starv’d: so plenty makes me poor. | |
| Yet are mine eyes so filled with the store | |
| Of that fair sight, that nothing else they brook, | 10 |
| But loathe the things which they did like before, | |
| And can no more endure on them to look. | |
| All this world’s glory seemeth vain to me, | |
| And all their shows but shadows, saving she. | | | | |
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