So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan’s beams, which then did glister fair.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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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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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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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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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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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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Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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