Amoretti (from the sequence of The Faerie Queene)

this poem mostly shows how Spenser uses the Sonnets or little songs in his poem..nice poem..beautiful expressions..peruse peruse


Amoretti

My love is like to ice, and I to fire
How comes it then that this her cold so great
Is not dissolved through my so hot desire
But harder grows the moreI her entreat?
Or how comes it that my exceeding heat
is not delayed by her heart-frozen cold
But that i burn much more i boiling sweat
And feel my flames augmented manifold?
What more miraculous thing may be told
That fire, which all thing melts, should harden ice
And ice, which is congealed with sensless cold
Should kindle fire by wonderful device?
Such is the power of love in gentle mind
That it can alter all the course of kind




Edmund Spenser
(1552 - 1599)