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by Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599)

Sonnet VI
Language: English 
Be nought dismayd that her unmoved mind
     doth still persist in her rebellious pride:
     such love, not lyke to lusts of baser kynd,
     the harder wonne, the firmer will abide.
The durefull Oake, whose sap in not yet dride,
     is long ere it conceive the kindling fyre:
     but when it once doth burne, it doth divide
     great heat, and makes his flames to heaven aspire.
So hard it is to kindle new desire
     in gentle brest that shall endure for ever:
     deepe is the wound, that dints the parts entire
     with chast affects, that naught but death can sever.
Then thinke not long in taking litle paine,
     to knit the knot, that ever shall remiane.

Text Authorship:

  • by Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599), "Sonnet VI", appears in Amoretti and Epithalamion [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Edmund Duncan Rubbra (1901 - 1986), "Sonnet VI", op. 42 no. 3 (1935), published 1949 [ tenor and strings ], from Five Sonnets, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]

Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2022-01-31
Line count: 14
Word count: 115

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