Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
EDMUND SPENSERThis iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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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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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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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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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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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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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
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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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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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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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