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Edmund Spenser (Writer)

For of thethe bodie forme doth take; For the soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.
— Edmund Spenser soul
For all that faire is, is by; That is atothe gentle blood.
— Edmund Spenser blood
I trow that countenance cannot lie, Whose thoughts are legible in the eie.
— Edmund Spenser thoughts
Death slue not him, but he made death his ladder to the skies.
— Edmund Spenser death
I learned have, not to despise, What ever thing seemes small in common eyes.
— Edmund Spenser eyes
For of the soule the bodie forme doth take; For the soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.
— Edmund Spenser soul
For all that faire is, is by nature good; That is a signe to know the gentle blood.
— Edmund Spenser nature
To kerke the narre from God more farre, Has bene an old-sayd sawe; And he that strives to touche a starre Oft stombles at a strawe.
— Edmund Spenser god
Full little knowest thou that hast not tride, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To wast 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. . . . . . . . . . To fret thy soule with crosses and with cares; To eate thy heart through comfortlesse dispaires; 13 To fawne, to crowche, to waite, to ride, to ronne, To spend, to give, to want, to be undonne. Unhappie wight, borne to desastrous end, That doth his life in so long tendance spend!
— Edmund Spenser life
What more felicitie can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with libertie, And to be lord of all the workes of Nature, To raine in th' aire from earth to highest skie, To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature.
— Edmund Spenser art
I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, but not my love to see.
— Edmund Spenser love
Tell her the joyous Time will not be staid, Unlesse she doe him by the forelock take.
— Edmund Spenser joy
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 Spenser time
Behold, whiles she before the altar stands, Hearing the holy priest that to her speakes, And blesseth her with his two happy hands.
— Edmund Spenser happy
Calm was the day, and through the trembling air Sweet-breathing Zephyrus did softly play— A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair
— Edmund Spenser light
Sweete Themmes runne softly, till I end my Song.
— Edmund Spenser end
With that I saw two swans of goodly hue Come softly swimming down along the Lee: Two fairer birds I yet did never see; The snow which doth the top of Pindus strow Did never whiter show, Nor Jove himself, when he a swan would be For love of Leda, whiter did appear
— Edmund Spenser love
Fierce warres and faithfullshall moralize my .
— Edmund Spenser faith
for , andfor reward.
— Edmund Spenser war
Ill can hethe , that cannot reach the small.
— Edmund Spenser
The gentle minde by gentleis knowne. For a man byis so well bewrayd, As by his manners.
— Edmund Spenser mind
Fierce warres and faithfull loves shall moralize my song.
— Edmund Spenser love
A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine.
— Edmund Spenser night
But of his cheere did seeme too solemne sad; Yet nothing did he dread, but ever was ydrad.
— Edmund Spenser sad
O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!
— Edmund Spenser art
The noblest mind the best contentment has.
— Edmund Spenser mind
A bold bad man, that dar'd to call by name Great Gorgon, Prince of darknesse and dead night.
— Edmund Spenser man
As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
— Edmund Spenser heaven
Ay me, how many perils doe enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall!
— Edmund Spenser man
As when in Cymbrian plaine An heard of bulles, whom kindly rage doth sting, Doe for the milky mothers want complaine,Mbr
— Edmund Spenser age
Entire affection hateth nicer hands.
— Edmund Spenser hate
That darksome cave they enter, where they find That cursed man, low sitting on the ground, Musing full sadly in his sullein mind.
— Edmund Spenser mind
Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease, And layes the soul to sleepe in quiet grave? Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.
— Edmund Spenser life
No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweete, but there it might be fownd To bud out faire, and throwe her sweete smels al arownd.
— Edmund Spenser pain
And is there care in Heaven? And is there love In heavenly spirits to these Creatures bace?
— Edmund Spenser love
How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us that succour want!
— Edmund Spenser want
And all for love, and nothing for reward.
— Edmund Spenser love
Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound.
— Edmund Spenser
Through thicke and thin, both over banke and bush In hope her to attaine by hooke or crooke.
— Edmund Spenser hope
Into the woods thenceforth in hast she went, To seeke for hearbes, that mote him remedy; For she of hearbes had great intendiment, Taught of the Nymphe, which from her infancy Her nourced had in trew Nobility: There, whether it divine Tobacco were, Or Panachaea, or Polygony, She found, and brought it to her patient deare Who al this while lay bleeding out his hart-bloud neare.
— Edmund Spenser art
Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew, And her conception of the joyous Prime.
— Edmund Spenser joy
Roses red and violets blew, And all the sweetest flowres that in the forrest grew.
— Edmund Spenser sweet
And as she lookt about, she did behold, How over that same dore was likewise writ,Be bold, be bold, and every where Be bold, That much she muz'd, yet could not construe it By any ridling skill, or commune wit. At last she spyde at that same roomes upper end, Another yron dore, on which was writ,Be not too bold.
— Edmund Spenser true
Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled, On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.
— Edmund Spenser fame
For all that Nature by her mother-wit Could frame in earth.
— Edmund Spenser art
As withered weed through cruell winters tine, That feeles the warmth of sunny beames reflection, Liftes up his head, that did before decline And gins to spread his leafe before the faire sunshine.
— Edmund Spenser war
Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square, From the first point of his appointed sourse, And being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse.
— Edmund Spenser world
Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
— Edmund Spenser hope
Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.
— Edmund Spenser great
A monster, which the Blatant beast men call, A dreadfull feend of gods and men ydrad.
— Edmund Spenser god
The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne. For a man by nothing is so well bewrayd, As by his manners.
— Edmund Spenser mind
And in his hand a sickle he did holde, To reape the ripened fruits the which the earth had yold.
— Edmund Spenser art
For we by conquest, of our soveraine might, And by eternall doome of Fate's decree, Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.
— Edmund Spenser rain
Her angels face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
— Edmund Spenser heaven

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