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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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Mind

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Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? - Epithalamion
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Greatest god below the sky.
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Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.
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Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
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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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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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Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
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The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.
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Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?
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O sacred hunger of ambitious minds.
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Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
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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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Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin.
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The nightingale is sovereign of song.
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I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
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I learned have, not to despise,What ever thing seemes small in common eyes.
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Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
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Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair
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Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.
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