His short poems include the Ruins of Rome and Visions of the World's Vanity, which are collected among his Complaints.
His short poems include the Ruins of Rome and Visions of the World's Vanity, which are collected among his Complaints. He instructed the "sweet Thames" to "run softly" until he ends his song in one of his major poems, while he concluded another poem by asking that it be "for short time an endless monument." He compared himself to the "culver on the bared bough" in the 89th and final sonnet of his sequence Amoretti, which is sometimes paired with his "Epithalamion." FTP, name this English poet better known for his epic featuring Britomart and the Red Cross Knight, The Fairie Queene.
His short poems include the Ruins of Rome and Visions of the World's Vanity, which are collected among his Complaints.
Edmund Spenser