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The Works of Edmund Spenser

A Variorum Edition: Edited by Edwin Greenlaw: Charles Grosvenor Osgood: Frederick Morgan Padelford: Ray Heffner
Spenser, Edmund (1552?-1599)

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VOLUME ONE THE MINOR POEMS
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VOLUME TWO THE MINOR POEMS
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A THEATRE wherein be represented as wel the miseries & calamities that follow the voluptuous Worldlings, As also the greate ioyes and plesures which the faithfull do enioy.
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Complaints.
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AMORETTI AND Epithalamion.
  
[dedication]
  
G: W. senior, to the Author
  
[Ah Colin, whether on the lowly plaine]
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Amoretti.
 I. 
SONNET. I.
 II. 
SONNET. II.
 III. 
SONNET. III.
 IIII. 
SONNET. IIII.
 V. 
SONNET. V.
 VI. 
SONNET. VI.
 VII. 
SONNET. VII.
 VIII. 
SONNET. VIII.
 IX. 
SONNET. IX.
 X. 
SONNET. X.
 XI. 
SONNET. XI.
 XII. 
SONNET. XII.
 XIII. 
SONNET. XIII.
 XIIII. 
SONNET. XIIII.
 XV. 
SONNET. XV.
 XVI. 
SONNET. XVI.
 XVII. 
SONNET. XVII.
 XVIII. 
SONNET. XVIII.
 XIX. 
SONNET. XIX.
 XX. 
SONNET. XX.
 XXI. 
SONNET. XXI.
 XXII. 
SONNET. XXII.
 XXIII. 
SONNET. XXIII.
 XXIIII. 
SONNET. XXIIII.
 XXV. 
SONNET. XXV.
 XXVI. 
SONNET. XXVI.
 XXVII. 
SONNET. XXVII.
 XXVIII. 
SONNET. XXVIII.
 XXIX. 
SONNET. XXIX.
 XXX. 
SONNET. XXX.
 XXXI. 
SONNET. XXXI.
 XXXII. 
SONNET. XXXII.
 XXXIII. 
SONNET. XXXIII.
 XXXIIII. 
SONNET. XXXIIII.
 XXXV. 
SONNET. XXXV.
 XXXVI. 
SONNET. XXXVI.
 XXXVII. 
SONNET. XXXVII.
 XXXVIII. 
SONNET. XXXVIII.
 XXXIX. 
SONNET. XXXIX.
 XL. 
SONNET. XL.
 XLI. 
SONNET. XLI.
 XLII. 
SONNET. XLII.
 XLIII. 
SONNET. XLIII.
 XLIIII. 
SONNET. XLIIII.
 XLV. 
SONNET. XLV.
 XLVI. 
SONNET. XLVI.
 XLVII. 
SONNET. XLVII.
 XLVIII. 
SONNET. XLVIII.
 XLIX. 
SONNET. XLIX.
 L. 
SONNET. L.
 LI. 
SONNET. LI.
 LII. 
SONNET. LII.
 LIII. 
SONNET. LIII.
 LIIII. 
SONNET. LIIII.
 LV. 
SONNET. LV.
 LVI. 
SONNET. LVI.
 LVII. 
SONNET. LVII.
 LVIII. 
SONNET. LVIII. By her that is most assured to her selfe.
 LIX. 
SONNET. LIX.
 LX. 
SONNET. LX.
 LXI. 
SONNET. LXI.
 LXII. 
SONNET. LXII.
 LXIII. 
SONNET. LXIII.
 LXIIII. 
SONNET. LXIIII.
 LXV. 
SONNET. LXV.
 LXVI. 
SONNET. LXVI.
 LXVII. 
SONNET. LXVII.
 LXVIII. 
SONNET. LXVIII.
 LXIX. 
SONNET. LXIX.
 LXX. 
SONNET. LXX.
 LXXI. 
SONNET. LXXI.
 LXXII. 
SONNET. LXXII.
 LXXIII. 
SONNET. LXXIII.
 LXXIIII. 
SONNET. LXXIIII.
 LXXV. 
SONNET. LXXV.
 LXXVI. 
SONNET. LXXVI.
 LXXVII. 
SONNET. LXXVII.
 LXXVIII. 
SONNET. LXXVIII.
 LXXIX. 
SONNET. LXXIX.
 LXXX. 
SONNET. LXXX.
 LXXXI. 
SONNET. LXXXI.
 LXXXII. 
SONNET. LXXXII.
 LXXXIII. 
SONNET. LXXXIII.
 LXXXIIII. 
SONNET. LXXXIIII.
 LXXXV. 
SONNET. LXXXV.
 LXXXVI. 
SONNET. LXXXVI.
 LXXXVII. 
SONNET. LXXXVII.
 LXXXVIII. 
SONNET. LXXXVIII.
 LXXXIX. 
SONNET. LXXXIX.
  
[Anacreontics]
  
Epithalamion.
  
Prothalamion
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Commendatory Sonnets.
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Fragments.
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[VOLUMES THREE–SIX]

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SONNET. XXI.

[Was it the worke of nature or of Art]

Was it the worke of nature or of Art,
which tempred so the feature of her face,
that pride and meeknesse mixt by equall part,
doe both appeare t'adorne her beauties grace?
For with mild pleasance, which doth pride displace,
she to her loue doth lookers eyes allure:
and with sterne countenance back again doth chace
their looser lookes that stir vp lustes impure.
With such strange termes her eyes she doth inure,
that with one looke she doth my life dismay:
and with another doth it streight recure,
her smile me drawes, her frowne me driues away.
Thus doth she traine and teach me with her lookes,
such art of eyes I neuer read in bookes.
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