Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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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Through 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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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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Together linkt with adamantine chains.
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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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A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.
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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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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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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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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For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love’s delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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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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Greatest god below the sky.
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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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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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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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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But Justice, though her dome she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
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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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