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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.

Edmund Spenser

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Edmund Spenser
Died: 1599
Died: January 13
Poet
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London
England
Edmund Spencer
Love
Appall
Lamenting
Raging
Waking
Rage
Passion

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Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love's delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.
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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.
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How many great ones may remember'd be, Which in their days most famously did flourish, Of whom no word we hear, nor sign now see, But as things wip'd out with a sponge do perish, Because the living cared not to cherish No gentle wits, through pride or covetize, Which might their names forever memorize!
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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.
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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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Oft stumbles at a straw.
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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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I learned have, not to despise,What ever thing seemes small in common eyes.
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Greatest god below the sky.
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Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin.
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Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest.
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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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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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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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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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For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night.
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Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy.
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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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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
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Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
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