Ah! when will this long weary day have end,
And lend me leave to come unto my love?

The speaker voices the familiar lyric complaint of the lover separated from the beloved: time drags, the day feels “long” and “weary,” and the only desired relief is permission to go to the loved one. The exclamation “Ah!” and the rhetorical question intensify a sense of impatience that is also devotional—love is treated as the day’s true end and purpose. In Spenser’s poetry, such yearning often participates in a larger Petrarchan tradition, where delay and distance sharpen desire and turn ordinary time into an emotional ordeal. The couplet’s cadence enacts that waiting, stretching the moment before reunion.