edmund spenser sonnet 1 analysis?

Question

Edmund spenser sonnet 1 analysis?
Can someone tell me their summary of this sonnet.
Sonnet I


HAppy ye leaves when as those lilly hands,
which hold my life in their dead doing might
shall handle you and hold in loves soft bands,
like captives trembling at the victors sight.
And happy lines, on which with starry light,
those lamping eyes will deign sometimes to look
and read the sorrows of my dying spright,
written with tears in harts close bleeding book.
And happy rhymes bathed in the sacred brooke,
of Helicon whence she derived is,
when ye behold that Angels blessed look,
my soul's long lacked food, my heavens bliss.
Leaves, lines, and rhymes, seek her to please alone,
whom if ye please, I care for other none.

Edmund Spenser

Answer 1

The poem talks about a poet ("the persona") who has written poems ("leaves", "lines", "rhymes") about his feelings for a lovely lady (an "angel" with "lamping [shining] eyes" and "lily [white and delicate] hands"). Throughout the sonnet, there is an apparent contradiction. As the persona points out (in the 7th line of the octave), the lady is reading "the sorrows of my dying sprite [soul]". Therefore, the reader may wonder how those verses can be "happy". Although sad (that is, they are about "the sorrows of my dying sprite"), his verses can be happy simply because they are being read by the woman he loves ("[the happy lines] behold that angel's blessed look"). Deep inside, all he wants is for her to look at him the way she looks at (= reads) his verses. In his own words, her "blessed look" is "my soul's long lacked food, my heaven's bliss". In the last two lines, he confesses that his most heartfelt verses are meant to please her because he cares for no one else ("for other none").

Note: there are a few typos in the poem transcribed above.