Edmund Spenser(1552–1599)
Sonnet 8 ("More then most faire, full of the living fire")
More then 0 most faire, full of the living fire,than
Kindled above unto the maker neere:
No eies5 but joyes, in which al powers conspire,
That to the world naught else be counted deare.
Thrugh your bright beams doth not the blinded guest6
Shoot out his darts to base affections wound
But Angels come to lead fraile mindes to rest
In chast desires on heavenly beauty bound.
You frame my thoughts and fashion me within,
You stop my toung, and teach my hart to speake,heart
You calme the storme that passion did begin,
Strong thrugh your cause, but by your vertue weak.
Dark is the world, where your light shined never;
Well is he borne, that may behold you ever.