“Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.”
Quote by Edmund Spenser
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Edmund Spenser
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. more
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“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