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?
EDMUND SPENSERThankfulness is the tune of angels.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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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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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowers That in the forest grew.
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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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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
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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 since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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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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All for love, and nothing for reward.
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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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For next to Death is Sleepe to be compared; Therefore his house is unto his annext: Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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