All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
EDMUND SPENSERAll that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
More Edmund Spenser Quotes
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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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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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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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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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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And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.
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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.
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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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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
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Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
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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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