Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
EDMUND SPENSERMan’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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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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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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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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Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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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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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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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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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All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
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Laws 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.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile
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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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