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Edmund Spenser, a renowned English poet, was born in England in 1552. His poetry has had a profound impact on literature, with his epic poem 'The Faerie Queene' being hailed as a classic of English literature.

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Famous Edmund Spenser Quotes

“Where justice grows, there grows eke greater grace.”

Grows Justice Greater Grace

Author:Edmund Spenser

“Sweet is the rose, but grows upon a brere; Sweet is the juniper, but sharp his bough; Sweet is the eglantine, but stiketh nere; Sweet is the firbloome, but its braunches rough; Sweet is the cypress, but its rynd is tough; Sweet is the nut, but bitter is his pill; Sweet is the broome-flowre, but yet sowre enough; And sweet is moly, but his root is ill.”

Enough Grows Growing Up Sweet Tough Roots Rose Ill Bitter Rough Nuts Pills Cypresses

Author:Edmund Spenser

“Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.”

Hard Grows Greater Ambition Lows Fellows Strive

Book:The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations

Source: The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations

“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.”

People Men Art Ends Use Grows Virtue Grace Poet Abuse England Lays Vices Wit Honour Advancing Suppressing

Book:The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations

Source: The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations

“My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?”

Desire Grows Love Is Fire Cold Harder Hot Ice Rejection Love Is Like

Book:Minor poems

Source: Minor poems

“All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.”

Should Happiness Grows Gratitude Garden Appreciation Bliss Immortal Cheer Delightful Thankfulness Cheerfulness Joyfulness

Book: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 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

About the Author

Born: 1552
Died: January 13, 1599
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 153

Books & Sources

The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertationsRelated source material

The Works of Edmund Spenser: With Observations of His Life and WritingsRelated source material

Amoretti And EpithalamionRelated source material

Hymns. Visions. Elegiac poemsRelated source material

Minor poemsRelated source material

Poetical worksRelated source material

The Poetical Works of Edmund SpenserRelated source material

The Works of Mr. Edmund SpenserRelated source material

Books I and II of the Faerie queene: the mutability cantos, and selections from the minor poetryRelated source material

Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Spenser (Illustrated)Related source material

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