| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Amoretti and Epithalamion | | Sonnet LXI. The glorious image of the Maker’s beauty | | Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
| | | THE GLORIOUS image of the Maker’s beauty, | |
| My sovereign saint, the idol of my thought, | |
| Dare not henceforth, above the bounds of duty, | |
| T’ accuse of pride, or rashly blame for aught. | |
| For being, as she is, divinely wrought, | 5 |
| And of the brood of Angels heavenly born; | |
| And with the crew of blessed Saints upbrought, | |
| Each of which did her with their gifts adorn; | |
| The bud of joy, the blossom of the morn, | |
| The beam of light, whom mortal eyes admire; | 10 |
| What reason is it then but she should scorn | |
| Base things, that to her love too bold aspire? | |
| Such heavenly forms ought rather worshipped be, | |
| Than dare be lov’d by men of mean degree. | | | | |
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