Quote

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.

Edmund Spenser

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
Poet
Translator
London
England
Edmund Spencer
Speak
Thoughts
Heavenly
Come
Fashion
Bound
Heart
Rest
Desires
Mind
Stop
Bounds
Teach
Tongue
Chaste
Beauty
Angel
Frail
Within
Minds
Frame
Desire
Lead
Angels

More quotes by Edmund Spenser

Image
Change still doth reign, and keep the greater sway.
Edmund Spenser
Image
So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
Edmund Spenser
Image
For if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will.
Edmund Spenser
Image
Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.
Edmund Spenser
Image
Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
Edmund Spenser
Image
Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.
Edmund Spenser
Image
All flesh doth frailty breed!
Edmund Spenser
Image
Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.
Edmund Spenser
Image
For of the soule the bodie forme doth take For the soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.
Edmund Spenser
Image
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.
Edmund Spenser
Image
Oft stumbles at a straw.
Edmund Spenser
Image
Then came October, full of merry glee.
Edmund Spenser
Image
Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought
Edmund Spenser
Image
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.
Edmund Spenser
Image
This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state for misery doth bravest minds abate.
Edmund Spenser
Image
And thus of all my harvest-hope I have Nought reaped but a weedye crop of care.
Edmund Spenser
Image
All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
Edmund Spenser
Image
Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
Edmund Spenser
Image
O sacred hunger of ambitious minds.
Edmund Spenser
Image
There learned arts do flourish in great honour And poets's wits are had in peerless price Religion hath lay power, to rest upon her, Advancing virtue, and suppressing vice. For end all good, all grace there freely grows, Had people grace it gratefully to use: For God His gifts there plenteously bestows, But graceless men them greatly do abuse.
Edmund Spenser