And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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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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A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books– I trow that countenance cannot lye Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.
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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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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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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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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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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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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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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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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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