Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
EDMUND SPENSERThankfulness is the tune of angels.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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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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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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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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Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
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Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love’s delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.
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But times do change and move continually.
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Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.
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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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So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
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