The sovereign beauty which I do admire, <br />Witness the world how worthy to be praised: <br />The light whereof hath kindled heavenly fire <br />In my frail spirit, by her from baseness raised; <br />That being now with her huge brightness dazed, <br />Base thing I can no more endure to view; <br />But looking still on her, I stand amazed <br />At wondrous sight of so celestial hue. <br />So when my tongue would speak her praises due, <br />It stopped is with thought's astonishment: <br />And when my pen would write her titles true, <br />It ravish'd is with fancy's wonderment: <br />Yet in my heart I then both speak and write <br />The wonder that my wit cannot endite.<br /><br />Edmund Spenser<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/amoretti-iii-the-sovereign-beauty/
