And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
EDMUND SPENSERMe seems the world is run quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed source,And being once amiss grows daily worse and worse.
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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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No dainty flower or herbs that grows on ground, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweet, but there it might be found To bud out fair, and throw her sweet smells all around.
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For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan’s beams, which then did glister fair.
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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!
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Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.
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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.
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But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
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Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
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