She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
EDMUND SPENSERDeath is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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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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The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.
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Me 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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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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Sluggish idleness–the nurse of sin.
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No dainty flower or herbs that grows on ground, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweet, but there it might be found To bud out fair, and throw her sweet smells all around.
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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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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall.
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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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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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