| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Amoretti and Epithalamion | | Sonnet LXXXVI. Since I did leave the presence of my love | | Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599) |
| | | SINCE I did leave the presence of my love, | |
| Many long weary days I have outworn; | |
| And many nights, that slowly seemed to move | |
| Their sad protract from evening until morn. | |
| For, when as day the heaven doth adorn, | 5 |
| I wish that night the noyous day would end: | |
| And, when as night hath us of light forlorn, | |
| I wish that day would shortly reascend. | |
| Thus I the time with expectation spend, | |
| And fain my grief with changes to beguile, | 10 |
| That further seems his term still to extend, | |
| And maketh every minute seem a mile. | |
| So sorrow still doth seem too long to last; | |
| But joyous hours do fly away too fast. | | | | |
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