“Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.”
Source: The poetical works of Edmund Spenser ... from the text of J. Upton. With a preface, biographical and critical, by J. Aikin
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Source: Minor poems
Source: The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations of His Life and Writings
Source: The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations on His Life and Writings
Source: The Faerie Queene, Book Five
“For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.”
Source: The Faerie Queene, Book Five
“I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, but not my love to see.”
Source: The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations of His Life and Writings
“Together linkt with adamantine chains.”
Source: The Works of that Famous English Poet, Mr. Edmond Spenser: Viz : The Faery Queen, The Shepherds Calendar, The History of Ireland, &c. Whereunto is Added, an Account of His Life ; with Other New Additions Never Before in Print
“To be wise and eke to love, Is granted scarce to gods above.”
“All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.”
Source: The Works: In Sex Volumes. With A Glossary Explaining the Old and Obscure Words. To which is Prefix'd the Life of the Author, and an Essay on Allegorical Poetry
Source: The Faerie Queene
“Then came October, full of merry glee.”
Source: Spenser's Faerie Queene
“So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.”
Source: The Works of Mr. Edmund Spenser
“Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.”
Source: Faerie queene. book III-V
“Entire affection hateth nicer hands.”
Source: The Works of Edmund Spenser ...
“And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.”
Source: The Works of Edmund Spenser: With a Selection of Notes from Various Commentators; and a Glossarial Index: to which is Prefixed, Some Account of the Life of Spenser
“Why then should witless man so much misweene That nothing is but that which he hath seene?”
Source: The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations of His Life and Writings
Source: The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser: In Five Volumes ...
“What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?”
“For of the soule the bodie forme doth take; For the soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.”
“All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.”
“What man that sees the ever-whirling wheel Of Change, the which all mortal things doth sway.”
“The noblest mind the best contentment has”
Source: Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves: Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene
Source: The Works of Mr. Edmund Spenser: In Six Volumes : with a Glossary Explaining the Old and Obscure Words
“Gold all is not that doth golden seem.”
Source: The Fairy Queen
Source: The Works of the British Poets. With Prefaces
Source: The Faerie Queene, Book One
“But times do change and move continually.”
Source: THE FAERIE QUEENE.
“Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?”
Source: Spenser's Faerie Queene
“For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.”
Source: The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations