Edmund Spenser

Amoretti

LI
Do I not see that fairest images
Of hardest marble are of purpose made?
For that they should endure through many ages,
Ne let their famous monuments to fade.
Why then do I, untrained in lovers' trade,
Her hardness blame which I should more commend?
Sith never aught was excellent assayed,
Which was not hard t'achieve and bring to end.
Ne aught so hard, but he that would attend,
Mote soften it and to his will allure:
So do I hope her stubborn heart to bend,
And that it then more steadfast will endure.
Only my pains will be the more to get her,
But having her, my joy will be the greater.

цікаво порівнювати щораз із оригіналом, Олено
саме через відмінні нюанси, в старожитнього англійця Спенсера
і в сучасної українки Балери ~

Симпатичний сонетик! Наприклад, заворожує оце :"До мене, вперте серденько, схились"....