All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
EDMUND SPENSERThe man whom nature’s self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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But times do change and move continually.
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Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate.
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan’s beams, which then did glister fair.
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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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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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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
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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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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.
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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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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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But O the exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
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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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