All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
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But O the exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
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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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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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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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The noblest mind the best contentment has.
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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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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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Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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