PagineSpenser wrote The Faerie Queene, a long allegorical romance of knights and virtues dedicated to Elizabeth I, and invented the nine-line Spenserian stanza later loved by the Romantics. His sonnet sequence Amoretti celebrates his courtship and marriage.
Public-domain poems, free to read and print.
Free in the library:
Yes. Edmund Spenser’s poems are in the public domain, and you can read 1 of them here. Full books are also free in the library.
The Faerie Queene (1590–1596), Amoretti (1595), The Shepheardes Calender (1579).