Edmund Spenser on leaving
Edmund Spenser84 quotes“Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? – Epithalamion”
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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!
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser 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.
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