Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
EDMUND SPENSER
EDMUND SPENSER
Edmund Spenser on love
Edmund Spenser84 quotes“Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.”
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Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser 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.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Together linkt with adamantine chains.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.
Edmund SpenserEdmund 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.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved meed Due praise, that is the spur of doing well? For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will.
Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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