One of this author's poems declares: "Sweet is the Cypress, but his rind is tough / Sweet is the nut, but bitter is his pill". In one poem, he says that his beloved's bosom smells like "a Strawberry bed" when comparing the scent of her kiss to a garden. In another poem, he looks into his beloved's eyes and sees that "Legions of loves with little wings did fly / Darting their deadly arrows fiery bright". One of his poems addresses the "Nymphs of Mulla which with careful heed, / The silver scaly trouts do tend full well". Lord Byron's (*) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage emplo
One of this author's poems declares: "Sweet is the Cypress, but his rind is tough / Sweet is the nut, but bitter is his pill". In one poem, he says that his beloved's bosom smells like "a Strawberry bed" when comparing the scent of her kiss to a garden. In another poem, he looks into his beloved's eyes and sees that "Legions of loves with little wings did fly / Darting their deadly arrows fiery bright". One of his poems addresses the "Nymphs of Mulla which with careful heed, / The silver scaly trouts do tend full well". Lord Byron's (*) Childe Harold's Pilgrimage employs a stanza form named for this author, which involves eight lines of iambic pentameter followed by one alexandrine line. He wrote a marriage ode for Elizabeth Boyle that is paired with a collection whose pages he addresses by saying: "Happy ye leaves when as those lily hands" handle them. For 10 points, name this English author of the Epithalamion and the sonnet sequence Amoretti.
One of this author's poems declares: "Sweet is the Cypress, but his rind is tough /
Edmund Spenser