Edmund Spenser on love
Edmund Spenser84 quotes“All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.”
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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.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser All for love, and nothing for reward.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser 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
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser All flesh doth frailty breed!
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser 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 SpenserEdmund Spenser In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser 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.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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