Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
EDMUND SPENSERLaws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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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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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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But times do change and move continually.
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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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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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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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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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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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My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?
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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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