Edmund Spenser quotes

Edmund Spenser

"Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please."
Edmund Spenser
Life Death War Sleep
"And all for love, and nothing for reward."
Edmund Spenser
Love Nothing Reward
"Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place."
Edmund Spenser
Great Face Sunshine Angel
"What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?"
Edmund Spenser
Liberty Fall More Enjoy
"It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor."
Edmund Spenser
Good Mind Rich Happy
"The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death."
Edmund Spenser
Death Stone Genius Will
"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 Reason Season Rhyme
"He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw."
Edmund Spenser
Touch He Straw Starts
"Each goodly thing is hardest to begin."
Edmund Spenser
Hardest Begin Thing Each
"Gold all is not that doth golden seem."
Edmund Spenser
Gold Golden Doth Seem
"Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time."
Edmund Spenser
Time Flower Romantic Love
"Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time."
Edmund Spenser
Time Flower Romantic Love
"She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowres That in the forrest grew."
Edmund Spenser
Flower Rose Red
"Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind."
Edmund Spenser
Mind Kind Power Of Love
"All for love, and nothing for reward."
Edmund Spenser
Love Falling In Love Love You
"But times do change and move continually."
Edmund Spenser
Change Moving
"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."
Edmund Spenser
Fall May Tides
"Thankfulness is the tune of angels."
Edmund Spenser
Gratitude Angel Thankfulness
"And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine."
Edmund Spenser
Pleasure Paine
"Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies."
Edmund Spenser
Men Heaven Succeed
"Be bold, and everywhere be bold."
Edmund Spenser
"So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule."
Edmund Spenser
Example Doctrine Gracious
"Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place."
Edmund Spenser
Love Eye Angel
"So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught."
Edmund Spenser
God Love Is Taught
"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
Rhyming Reason Rhyme
"For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought."
Edmund Spenser
May Lost Found
"Sweet is the rose, but grows upon a brere; Sweet is the juniper, but sharp his bough; Sweet is the eglantine, but stiketh nere; Sweet is the firbloome, but its braunches rough; Sweet is the cypress, but its rynd is tough; Sweet is the nut, but bitter is his pill; Sweet is the broome-flowre, but yet sowre enough; And sweet is moly, but his root is ill."
Edmund Spenser
Sweet Growing Up Nuts
"And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw."
Edmund Spenser
Stars Strive Strife
"Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem."
Edmund Spenser
Beauty Men Shows
"In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue."
Edmund Spenser
Firsts Vain Temper
"Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right."
Edmund Spenser
Simple Law People
"Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin."
Edmund Spenser
Nurse Sin Sluggish
"For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night."
Edmund Spenser
Eye Night Sight
"The noblest mind the best contentment has"
Edmund Spenser
Mind Self Improvement Contentment
"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 Spenser
Love Is Ice Fire
"The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners."
Edmund Spenser
Men Mind Deeds
"All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss."
Edmund Spenser
Happiness Gratitude Appreciation
"All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss."
Edmund Spenser
Happiness Gratitude Appreciation
"Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small."
Edmund Spenser
Leadership Motivation Great Leader
"Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small."
Edmund Spenser
Leadership Motivation Great Leader
"One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tide and made my pains his prey. Vain man (said she) that dost in vain assay A mortal thing so to immortalise; For I myself shall like to this decay, And eke my name be wipèd out likewise. Not so (quod I); let baser things devise To die in dust, but you shall live by fame; My verse your virtues rare shall eternise, And in the heavens write your glorious name: Where, when as Death shall all the world subdue, Our love shall live, and later life renew."
Edmund Spenser
Pain Writing Men
"In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate."
Edmund Spenser
Revenge Hate Heart
"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
Bud Might Als
"Through knowledge we behold the world's creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature's cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass."
Edmund Spenser
Judging World Firsts
"How many great ones may remember'd be, Which in their days most famously did flourish, Of whom no word we hear, nor sign now see, But as things wip'd out with a sponge do perish, Because the living cared not to cherish No gentle wits, through pride or covetize, Which might their names forever memorize!"
Edmund Spenser
Pride Names Forever
"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
Morning Stars Drawing
"All flesh doth frailty breed!"
Edmund Spenser
Mistake Flesh Frailty
"In youth, before I waxe' d old, The blind boy,Venus' baby, For want of cunning made me bold, In bitter hive to grope for honey."
Edmund Spenser
Baby Boys Want
"Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall."
Edmund Spenser
Passion Waking Rage

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