by Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599)
Sonnet XL
Language: English
Mark when she smiles with amiable cheer, And tell me whereto can ye liken it; When on each eyelid sweetly do appear An hundred graces as in shade to sit. Likest it seemeth, in my simple wit, Unto the fair sunshine in summer’s day; That, when a dreadful storm away is flit, Through the broad world doth spread his goodly ray; At sight whereof, each bird that sits on spray, And every beast that to his den was fled, Comes forth afresh out of their late dismay, And to the light lift up their drooping head. So my storm-beaten heart likewise is cheered With that sunshine, when cloudy looks are cleared.
Authorship:
- by Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599), "Sonnet XL", 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 XL", op. 43 no. 5 (1935), published 1942 [ tenor and string quartet ], from Amoretti: Five Sonnets (Second Series), no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
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Word count: 111