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
good-day night long
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.
fall long common
It often falls, in course of common life, that right long time is overborne of wrong.
sea long soul
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.
sad long ends
Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? - Epithalamion
judge love
Be judge ye heavens, that all things right esteeme, / How I him loved, and love with all my might, / So thought I eke of him, and thinke I thought aright.
almost fire fresh greater hart heard love patience rent tender unto
She heard with patience all unto the end, / And strove to maister sorrowful assay, / Which greater grew, the more she did contend; / And almost rent her tender hart in tway / And love fresh coles unto her fire did lay: / For greater love, the greater is the losse...
creature full hart humorous humour limbs saw side soft softly sunny sweet
Whiles every sence teh humour sweet embayd, / And slombring soft my hart did steale away, / Me seemed, by my side a royall Mayd / Her daintie limbs full softly down did lay: / So faire a creature yet saw never sunny day.
grow loves seldom true
True loves are often sown, but seldom grow on ground.
discord lays
Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
heart iron mind
This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
avenging simple subdue truth
O how can beautie maister the most strong, / And simple truth subdue avenging wrong?
against beauties blazing face glorious light strive
The blazing brightnesse of her beauties beame, / And glorious light of her sunshyny face / To tell, were as to strive against the streame.
beauty blood gentle
For all that faire is, is by nature good;That is a signe to know the gentle blood.
taste
There is no disputing about taste.