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Edmund Spenser

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Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
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London
England
Edmund Spencer
Noblest
Contentment
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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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Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!
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Thankfulness is the tune of angels.
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For next to Death is Sleepe to be compared Therefore his house is unto his annext: Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext.
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Full many mischiefs follow cruel wrath Abhorred bloodshed and tumultuous strife Unmanly murder and unthrifty scath, Bitter despite, with rancor's rusty knife And fretting grief the enemy of life All these and many evils more, haunt ire.
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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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For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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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?
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Ill seemes (sayd he) if he so valiant be, That he should be so sterne to stranger wight For seldom yet did living creature see That courtesie and manhood ever disagree.
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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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What though the sea with waves continuall Doe eate the earth, it is no more at all Ne is the earth the lesse, or loseth ought : For whatsoever from one place doth fall Is with the tyde unto another brought : For there is nothing lost, that may be found if sought.
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The nightingale is sovereign of song.
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Nothing under heaven so strongly doth allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty's love.
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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.
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Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
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For all that faire is, is by nature goodThat is a signe to know the gentle blood.
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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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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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Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.
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