English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Edmund Spenser quotes

English Poet January 1, 1552 – January 13, 1599

Edmund Spenser quotes in french
Edmund Spenser quotes in russian
Edmund Spenser quotes in german
 Cite this Page: Citation

Quotes

One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washd 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 wipd 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:... Edmund Spenser
So furiously each other did assayle, As if their soules they would attonce haue rent Out of their brests, that streames of bloud did rayle Adowne, as if their springes of life were spent; That all the ground with purple bloud was sprent, And all their armours staynd with bloudie gore, Yet scarcely once to breath would they relent, So mortall was their malice and so sore, Become of fayned friendship which they vow'd afore. Edmund Spenser
My love is like to ice, and I to fire; How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolv'd through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat? Or how comes it that my exceeding heat Is not delay’d by her heart-frozen cold; But that I burn much more in boiling sweat, And feel my flames augmented manifold! What more miraculous thing may be told, That fire, which all things melts, should harden ice; And ice, which is congeal’d with senseless cold, Should kindle fire by... Edmund Spenser
But O the exceeding grace. Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe. Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser quote: "Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me..."
Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? - Epithalamion Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser quote: "And all for love, and nothing for reward."
And all for love, and nothing for reward. Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser quote: "Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war,..."
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please. Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser quote: "Woe never wants, where every cause is caught, and rash..."
Woe never wants, where every cause is caught, and rash Occasion makes unquiet life. Edmund Spenser
His Lady sad to see his sore constraint, Cried out, "Now now Sir knight, shew what ye bee, Add faith unto your force, and be not faint: Strangle her, else she sure will strangle thee." That when he heard, in great perplexitie, His gall did grate for griefe and high distaine, And knitting all his force got one hand free, Wherewith he grypt her gorge with so great paine, That soone to loose her wicked bands did her constraine. Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser quote: "It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or..."
It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. Edmund Spenser
Men call you fayre, and you doe credit it, For that your self ye daily such doe see: But the trew fayre, that is the gentle wit, And vertuous mind, is much more praysd of me. For all the rest, how ever fayre it be, Shall turne to nought and loose that glorious hew: But onely that is permanent and free. From frayle corruption, that doth flesh ensew. That is true beautie: that doth argue you. To be divine and borne of heavenly seed: Deriv'd from that fayre Spirit, from whom al true. And perfect... Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser quote: "Vntroubled night they say giues counsell best."
Vntroubled night they say giues counsell best. Edmund Spenser
Yet gold all is not, that doth gold seem, Nor all good knights, that shake well spear and shield: The worth of all men by their end esteem, And then praise, or due reproach them yield. Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser quote: "Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty..."
Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust. Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser quote: "Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright,..."
Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place. Edmund Spenser

Popular Author

Related Authors