Edmund Spenser Quotes

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"And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw"

Edmund Spenser

"She heard with patience all unto the end, / And strove to maister sorrowful assay, / Which greater grew, the more she did contend; / And almost rent her tender hart in tway / And love fresh coles unto her fire did lay: / For greater love, the greater is the losse..."

Edmund Spenser

"Fresh spring the herald of love's mighty king"

Edmund Spenser

"For of the soul the body form doth take,For soul is form, and doth the Body make."

Edmund Spenser Topics: Body

"Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place"

Edmund Spenser Topics: Heaven

"It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor"

Edmund Spenser

"Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please"

Edmund Spenser Topics: Death

"True loves are often sown, but seldom grow on ground."

Edmund Spenser

"And all for love, and nothing for reward"

Edmund Spenser Topics: Love

"For take thy balance if thou be so wise And weigh the wind that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow."

Edmund Spenser

"Each goodly thing is hardest to begin"

Edmund Spenser

"What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?"

Edmund Spenser Topics: English Poet Liberty

"Gold all is not that doth golden seem"

Edmund Spenser Topics: Gold

"I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason"

Edmund Spenser Topics: Reason

"Be judge ye heavens, that all things right esteeme, / How I him loved, and love with all my might, / So thought I eke of him, and thinke I thought aright."

Edmund Spenser

"The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death."

Edmund Spenser Topics: Death English Poet

"The blazing brightnesse of her beauties beame, / And glorious light of her sunshyny face / To tell, were as to strive against the streame."

Edmund Spenser

"Whiles every sence teh humour sweet embayd, / And slombring soft my hart did steale away, / Me seemed, by my side a royall Mayd / Her daintie limbs full softly down did lay: / So faire a creature yet saw never sunny day."

Edmund Spenser Topics: Humorous

"For of the soul the body form doth take,
For soul is form, and doth the Body make."

Edmund Spenser

"True loves are often sown,
but seldom grow on ground."

Edmund Spenser Topics: Love

"Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please."

Edmund Spenser Topics: English Poet

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