Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
EDMUND SPENSERMe 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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So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
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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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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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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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Greatest god below the sky.
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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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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved meed Due praise, that is the spur of doing well? For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
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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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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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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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