In the canon
The Shorter Poems
- Form
- Form Poetry Collection
- Year
- Year 1579
- Pages
- Pages 750
Twenty-four stanzas, one for each hour of the longest day: in Epithalamion Edmund Spenser wrote the wedding song for his own wedding, calling on the woods to answer him and the echo to ring, until night came down and he asked them to fall silent for the bride now in his arms. No other poet has ever given himself that.
Lo! I have made a Calender for every year, That steel in strength, and time in durance, shall outwear;
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