Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
EDMUND SPENSERFor since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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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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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
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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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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved meed Due praise, that is the spur of doing well? For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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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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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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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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So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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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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