Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
EDMUND SPENSERTogether linkt with adamantine chains.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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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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Through knowledge we behold the world’s creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature’s cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass.
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All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid.
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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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From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall.
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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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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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For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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