And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
EDMUND SPENSERTogether linkt with adamantine chains.
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For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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For next to Death is Sleepe to be compared; Therefore his house is unto his annext: Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext.
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books– I trow that countenance cannot lye Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.
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Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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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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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate’s decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
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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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But times do change and move continually.
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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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