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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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[VOLUMES THREE–SIX]
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THE FAERIE QVEENE.
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COMMENDATORY VERSES AND DEDICATORY SONNETS

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SONNET. LXIIII.

[Comming to kisse her lyps, (such grace I found)]

Comming to kisse her lyps, (such grace I found)
Me seemd I smelt a gardin of sweet flowres:
that dainty odours from them threw around
for damzels fit to decke their louers bowres.
Her lips did smell lyke vnto Gillyflowers,
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her ruddy cheekes lyke vnto Roses red:
her snowy browes lyke budded Bellamoures,
her louely eyes lyke Pincks but newly spred,
Her goodly bosome lyke a Strawberry bed,
her neck lyke to a bounch of Cullambynes:
her brest lyke lillyes, ere theyr leaues be shed,
her nipples lyke yong blossomd Iessemynes:
Such fragrant flowres doe giue most odorous smell,
but her sweet odour did them all excell.
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