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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? - Epithalamion

Edmund Spenser

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Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
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London
England
Edmund Spencer
Come
Long
Love
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Weary
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Leave
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Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought
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Fly from wrath sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
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But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.
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At last, the golden orientall gate Of greatest heaven gan to open fayre, And Phoebus, fresh as brydegrome to his mate, Came dauncing forth, shaking his dewie hayre And hurls his glistring beams through gloomy ayre.
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For if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will.
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For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
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What more felicitie can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with libertie, And to be lord of all the workes of Nature, To raine in th' aire from earth to highest skie, To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature.
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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
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All flesh doth frailty breed!
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And thus of all my harvest-hope I have Nought reaped but a weedye crop of care.
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This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state for misery doth bravest minds abate.
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So Orpheus did for his owne bride, So I unto my selfe alone will sing, The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring.
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Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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