sonnet lxvi edmund spenser?

Question

what does the poet meas by blessing?

Answer 1

Blessings - good things that you have. Things you have been blessed with.

TO all those happy blessings which ye haue,
with plenteous hand by heauen vpon you thrown:
this one disparagement they to you gaue,
that ye your loue lent to so meane a one.
Yee whose high worths surpassing paragon,
could not on earth haue found one fit for mate,
ne but in heauen matchable to none,
why did ye stoup vnto so lowly state.
But ye thereby much greater glory gate,
then had ye sorted with a princes pere:
for now your light doth more it selfe dilate,
and in my darknesse greater doth appeare.
Yet since your light hath once enlumind me,
with my reflex yours shall encreased be.

Answer 2

Virtues-- He's saying that, of all the virtues you posess, the only bad one is that you could stoop to love a worthless man like me. The light you shine out for me looks so dim compared to the light of your purity, but on me that light glares. You are so perfect that no one on earth could deserve you. Your light shining on me only makes me look even more worthless. However, when that light reflects off me back onto you, it makes you only shine brighter.

Quite beautiful!