Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
EDMUND SPENSERThrough 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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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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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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For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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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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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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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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Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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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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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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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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