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AMORETTI: 52 by EDMUND SPENSER

Poet Analysis

First Line: SO OFT AS HOMEWARD I FROM HER DEPART
Last Line: THAT OF HER PRESENS I MY MEED MAY TAKE.
Subject(s): GRIEF; RECONCILIATION;
So oft as homeward I from her depart,
I go lyke one that, having lost the field,
Is prisoner led away with heavy hart,
Despoyld of warlike armes and knowen shield.
So doe I now my selfe a prisoner yeeld
To sorrow and to solitary paine:
From presence of my dearest deare exylde,
Longwhile alone in languor to remaine.
There let no thought of joy, 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.



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