The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: W...
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Source: The Faerie Queene, Book Two
Source: Amoretti And Epithalamion
Source: Amoretti And Epithalamion
Source: A View of the State of Ireland
Source: Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves
“Woe never wants, where every cause is caught, and rash Occasion makes unquiet life.”
Source: The Faerie Queene, Book Two
Source: Fowre Hymnes
Source: Amoretti And Epithalamion
“Hark, how the cheerful birds do chaunt their lays, and carol of love's praise.”
“Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.”
“The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded.”
Source: Spenser's Sonnets
“O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!”
Source: The Faerie Queene: Complete in Five Volumes: Book One; Book Two; Books Three and Four; Book Five; Book Six and the Mutabilitie Cantos
“And thus of all my harvest-hope I have Nought reaped but a weedye crop of care.”
Source: The Shepheardes Calender
“Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin.”
Source: Edmund Spenser's Knight of the red cross; or Holiness [The faerie queene, book 1]. The antique spelling is modernized, obsolete words are displaced [&c., by W. Horton].
“In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.”
Source: The Works of Mr. Edmund Spenser
“How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.”
Source: The Works of Edmund Spenser ...
“Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser
“I learned have, not to despise,What ever thing seemes small in common eyes.”
Source: The poems of Edmund Spenser
Source: THE FAERIE QUEENE.
Source: The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations
Source: The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations of His Life and Writings
“I trow that countenance cannot lie,Whose thoughts are legible in the eie.”
Source: The Complete Works in Verse and Prose: Essays. Daphnaida. Colin Clouts come home again. Amoretti and Epithalamion. Fowre hymnes. Prothalamion. Astrophel, etc., and Sonnets
Source: The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene: With Other Poems of Chaucer and Spenser
Source: Poetical works
Source: Ireland Under Elizabeth and James the First
Source: The Faerie Queene: Disposed Into Twelve Bookes Fashioning XII Morall Vertues
“Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late.”
Source: The works of Edmund Spenser, with notes by H.J. Todd
Source: The poetical works of Edmund Spenser ...
“For all that faire is, is by nature good;That is a signe to know the gentle blood.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Spenser (Illustrated)
“Fierce warres and faithfull loves shall moralize my song.”
Source: The Faerie Queene, Book One
Source: Spenser: Book II of the Faery Queen
“Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser
Source: The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser
“It often falls, in course of common life, that right long time is overborne of wrong.”
Source: The Works of Mr. Edmund Spenser
Source: Books I and II of the Faerie queene: the mutability cantos, and selections from the minor poetry