The Works of Edmund Spenser A Variorum Edition: Edited by Edwin Greenlaw: Charles Grosvenor Osgood: Frederick Morgan Padelford: Ray Heffner |
![]() | 1. |
![]() |
![]() |
![]() | 2. |
![]() | 3, 4, 5, 6. |
![]() | The Works of Edmund Spenser | ![]() |
SONNET. LII.
[So oft as homeward I from her depart]
So oft as homeward I from her depart,I goe lyke one that hauing lost the field,
is prisoner led away with heauy hart,
despoyld of warlike armes and knowen shield.
So doe I now my selfe a prisoner yeeld,
to sorrow and to solitary paine:
217
longwhile alone in languor to remaine.
There let no thought of ioy or pleasure vaine,
dare to approch, that may my solace breed:
but sudden dumps and drery sad disdayne
of all worlds gladnesse more my torment feed.
So I her absens will my penaunce make,
that of her presens I my meed may take.
![]() | The Works of Edmund Spenser | ![]() |