A timeless Renaissance hymn to the power of love and beauty.
This edition presents Edmund Spenser’s devotional verse, weaving mythic imagery with a reverent meditation on divine love and earthly longing. The collection blends praise, imagination, and rich classical allusion to invite readers into a world where beauty and grace become sources of wonder and reflection.
Within these hymns, the speaker pleads for heavenly guidance, celebrates the majesty of Love, and contemplates how mortal desire may uplift the spirit. The verse invites careful listening for its musical cadence and its striking, pastoral imaginations.
- Rich, ceremonial language that mirrors the grandeur of Renaissance poetry
- Vivid contrasts between earthly charm and heavenly light
- Themes of longing, grace, and the redemptive power of love
- Layered allusions and a sense of meditative, devotional inquiry
Ideal for readers of classic English poetry, Renaissance verse, and fans of ornate, lyrical hymns that explore love, virtue, and eternity.
Dij AN HYMNE OF HEAVENLY LOVE. LOue,lift me vp vpon thy golden wings, From this bale world vnto thy heauens hight, Where I may fee thofe admirable things. Which there thou worked by thy fbueraine mighty Farre aboue feeble reach of earthly fight, That I thereof an heauenly Hymne may fing Vnto.the god of Loue, high heauens king.