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...
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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...
grow loves seldom true
True loves are often sown, but seldom grow on ground.
life wise love-is
To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.
love pride rose
Gather therefore the Rose, whilst yet is prime, For soon comes age, that will her pride deflower: Gather the Rose of love, whilst yet is time.
sweet sweet-love haste
Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
love-is ice fire
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?
mind kind power-of-love
Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
love sweet voice
All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
love kings spring
Fresh spring the herald of love's mighty king.
god love-is lessons
So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
love-you rewards
All for love, and nothing for reward.
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.
discord lays
Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.