Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
EDMUND SPENSERAh! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay.
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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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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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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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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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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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I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
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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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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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Me 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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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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