Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
EDMUND SPENSERBeauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
-
-
So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life the leaf, the bud, the flower.
EDMUND SPENSER -
But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.
EDMUND SPENSER -
For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
EDMUND SPENSER -
To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
EDMUND SPENSER -
Greatest god below the sky.
EDMUND SPENSER -
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 SPENSER -
Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
EDMUND SPENSER -
Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
EDMUND SPENSER -
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
EDMUND SPENSER -
Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
EDMUND SPENSER -
For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
EDMUND SPENSER -
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
EDMUND SPENSER -
Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan’s beams, which then did glister fair.
EDMUND SPENSER -
But times do change and move continually.
EDMUND SPENSER -
The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.
EDMUND SPENSER