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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion

Edmund Spenser

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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Flower Growth Herself Sweet
Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
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Fly Happiness Thinking Wings
But times do change and move continually.
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Change Move Time
Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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Evening Fade Fresh Man Morning Taste
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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Compare Death Help Home Sleep
All flesh doth frailty breed!
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Body Flesh Fragile
Fresh spring the herald of love’s mighty king.
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King Love Spring
Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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Angry Fly Fruit Wait War Word
Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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Music Sweet
Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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Angel Gratitude Music One Liner Thankful
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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Growth Quite Run World Worst
And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Fall Stars Strike Touch
Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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Bad Death Equality Goodness Rest
Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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Freedom Gold
How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
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Adversity Fall Flower Right
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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Happiness Pain
Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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Love Sweet Time
All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
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Greatness Happiness Philosophy World
Fretting grief the enemy of life.
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Enemy Grief Life One Liner
A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man.
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Body Easy Gold Heart Man Mindset World
In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn’d himself first to subdue.
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Himself Learning Wasted
From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall.
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Bad Fall Goodness Himself Return Worst
Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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Himself Hope Kindness Mercy
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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Fall Lost Oneself Place
The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne.
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Action Gentle Mindset
A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books– I trow that countenance cannot lye Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.
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Attraction Comfortable Eyes Grace Kind Sweet Thinking
Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Character Inspirational Personality

Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion

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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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