Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenserwas an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of nascent Modern English verse, and is often considered one of the greatest poets in the English language...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
order names yeoman
And through the hall there walked to and fro A jolly yeoman, marshall of the same, Whose name was Appetite; he did bestow Both guestes and meate, whenever in they came, And knew them how to order without blame.
love sweet voice
All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
mind ambitious sacred
O sacred hunger of ambitious minds.
fall return worst
From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall.
simple law people
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.
grief enemy fretting
Fretting grief the enemy of life.
hands victory unjust
Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust.
smart heart thrones
But as it falleth, in the gentlest hearts Imperious love hath highest set his throne, And tyrannizeth in the bitter smarts Of them, that to him buxom are and prone.
war sight wrath
Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
leadership great-leader ill
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
men mind betrayed
The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.
love kings spring
Fresh spring the herald of love's mighty king.
sad long ends
Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? - Epithalamion
ambition strive lows
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.