Me seems the world is run quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed source,And being once amiss grows daily worse and worse.
EDMUND SPENSERAnd he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
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Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.
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To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
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All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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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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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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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion
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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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The man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
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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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So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
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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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