Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser1552–159916th century Edmund Spenser was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of nascent Modern English verse, and he is considered one of the great poets in the English language.
Poems
150 poems- 224 Within that temple where the Vestal flame5 lines
- 225 Was wont to burn; and, passing by that way6 lines
- 23 Januarie, 1589.21 lines
- 279 Allow and grace our Colin's flowing quill.6 lines
- 286 From rustic tunes to chant heroic deeds.5 lines
- 293 Yet still with people, peace, and plenty flows.14 lines
- 300 From whence your Muse and all the world takes light.27 lines
- 306 Let all your nymphs and Sirens of renown5 lines
- 308 Near your sweet banks there lives that sacred crown6 lines
- 313 And deep conceits now sings in Faeries' deeds.20 lines
- 320 Bow down his brow to her sacred hand.7 lines
- 322 In whose sweet breast are all the Muses bred:4 lines
- 326 Even of the fairest that the world has seen.36 lines
- 333 In woman's weeds himself he then disguised:16 lines
- 348 For well he knew, his Muse would soon be tired13 lines
- 356 He is excused, sith Sidney thought it fit.39 lines
- 362 And not to yield it the deserved price35 lines
- 407 The rugged brow of careful policy:34 lines
- 413 Treasurer of England_4 lines
- 417 And on whose mighty shoulders most does rest8 lines
- 422 The labour of lost time and wit unstayed:4 lines
- 424 And the dim veil, with which from common view31 lines
- 437 Which by your countenance does crave to be4 lines
- 466 To you, therefore, right noble lord, I send44 lines
- 483 And fill your mind with magnanimity.35 lines
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS11 lines
- Aeneas > (Central character of Virgil's _Aeneid_)35 lines
- Amoretti III: The Sovereign Beauty14 lines
- Amoretti LXXIV: Most Happy Letters14 lines
- Amoretti LXXV: One Day I Wrote Her Name14 lines
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE.58 lines
- BY THE GRACE OF GOD6 lines
- CANTO I23 lines
- COLIN CLOUT.78 lines
- CUDDIE'S12 lines
- DIGGON'S5 lines
- E.S.5 lines
- Easter14 lines
- EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES35 lines
- Editor's Introduction8 lines
- EPILOGUE.12 lines
- EVENTS IN SPENSER'S LIFE A.D. CONTEMPORARY EVENTS50 lines
- Examples5 lines
- For example:10 lines
- Hereat > At this; as a result of this35 lines
- HOBBINOL. COLIN CLOUT.121 lines
- HOBBINOL'S EMBLEME.13 lines
- HOW THE GLOSSARY WORKS28 lines
- I.53 lines
- I. THE AGE WHICH PRODUCED THE _FAERIE QUEENE_93 lines
- Ignoto > "Unknown" (not identifiable)28 lines
- II9 lines
- II9 lines
- II.76 lines
- III9 lines
- III9 lines
- III.144 lines
- III. STUDY OF THE _FAERIE QUEENE_124 lines
- IV19 lines
- IV10 lines
- IV.138 lines
- IX19 lines
- J. C. SMITH.60 lines
- Line 1 can thus be understood to mean:83 lines
- LONDON26 lines
- Main components:11 lines
- MORRELL'S EMBLEME.12 lines
- My Love Is Like to Ice14 lines
- NOTES.58 lines
- Of > By83 lines
- OF THE FIFTH VOLUME.22 lines
- OXFORD10 lines
- PIERS, HIS EMBLEME.5 lines
- PIERS. CUDDIE.126 lines
- Prosopopoia: or Mother Hubbard's Tale96 lines
- PURPOSE OF THE EDITION22 lines
- Right > Very4 lines
- Rosalind > (Colin Clout's love in _SC_)19 lines
- Sir Trevisan Fear107 lines
- SIR WALTER RALEIGH, KNIGHT.125 lines
- Sith > Since4 lines
- Sonnet 2915 lines
- Sonnet 3015 lines
- Sonnet 30 (Fire And Ice)14 lines
- Sonnet 5414 lines
- Sonnet 6715 lines
- Sonnet 6815 lines
- Sonnet 7515 lines
- Sonnet 7915 lines
- Sonnet 8015 lines
- TABLE OF CONTENTS.18 lines
- That > [He who]42 lines
- THE94 lines
- The edition includes the following elements:55 lines
- THE FORM OF THE POEM27 lines
- THE LEGENDE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE RED11 lines
- THE NUMBERING SYSTEM8 lines
- THE SHADOW TEXT45 lines
- THE SHEPHEARD'S9 lines
- THE TEXT OF THE POEM64 lines
- THE TEXTUAL APPENDIX18 lines
- The word has been supplied from 1609.32 lines
- THOMALIN'S EMBLEME.16 lines
- TO HIS BOOK.18 lines
- Transcriber's Notes:5 lines
- Types of entry6 lines
- Una Truth True Religion18 lines
- Una > "One" (Latin; she is the sole Truth)5 lines
- VI9 lines
- VII9 lines
- VIII9 lines
- Virtue herself > [Queen Elizabeth]7 lines
- WARRANTY10 lines
- Whilom > Formerly5 lines
- WILLY. THOMALIN.118 lines
- XI.16 lines
- XII.24 lines
- XIII.15 lines
- XIV.16 lines
- XIX.14 lines
- XL.24 lines
- XLI.22 lines
- XLII10 lines
- XLIII9 lines
- XLIV10 lines
- XLV10 lines
- XV.18 lines
- XVI.16 lines
- XVII.15 lines
- XVIII.15 lines
- Xx.38 lines
- XXI.15 lines
- XXII.16 lines
- XXIII.31 lines
- XXIV.14 lines
- XXIX9 lines
- XXV.14 lines
- XXVI.16 lines
- XXVII.16 lines
- XXVIII.16 lines
- XXX9 lines
- XXXI.16 lines
- XXXII.28 lines
- XXXIII9 lines
- XXXIV9 lines
- XXXIX9 lines
- XXXV9 lines
- XXXVI9 lines
- XXXVII.24 lines
- XXXVIII9 lines