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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. XXV.

[How long shall this lyke dying lyfe endure]

How long shall this lyke dying lyfe endure,
And know no end of her owne mysery:
but wast and weare away in termes vnsure,
twixt feare and hope depending doubtfully?
Yet better were attonce to let me die,
and shew the last ensample of your pride:
then to torment me thus with cruelty,
to proue your powre, which I too wel haue tride.
But yet if in your hardned brest ye hide
a close intent at last to shew me grace:
then all the woes and wrecks which I abide,
as meanes of blisse I gladly wil embrace;
And wish that more and greater they might be,
that greater meede at last may turne to mee.
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