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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.”

Quote by Edmund Spenser

Book:Poetical works

Work

This compilation includes a diverse range of poems, showcasing the author's poetic style and thematic concerns across various genres and historical periods. more

Author

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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“At last, the golden orientall gate Of greatest heaven gan to open fayre, And Phoebus, fresh as brydegrome to his mate, Came dauncing forth, shaking his dewie hayre; And hurls his glistring beams through gloomy ayre.”

Lasts Heaven Golden Gates Mates Shaking Beam Gloomy Aurora

Author:Edmund Spenser

“Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.”

People Law Simple Conditions Ought Benefits Manners Meant To Be

Book:Ireland Under Elizabeth and James the First

Source: Ireland Under Elizabeth and James the First

“Lastly came Winter cloathed all in frize, Chattering his teeth for cold that did him chill; Whilst on his hoary beard his breath did freese, And the dull drops, that from his purpled bill As from a limebeck did adown distill: In his right hand a tipped staffe he held, With which his feeble steps he stayed still; For he was faint with cold, and weak with eld; That scarce his loosed limbes he hable was to weld.”

Stills Hands Steps Cold Weak Breaths Bills Winter Teeth Dull Chill Beard Scarce

Book:The Faerie Queene: Disposed Into Twelve Bookes Fashioning XII Morall Vertues

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.”

Men States Late Evening Fades Wretched

Book:The works of Edmund Spenser, with notes by H.J. Todd

Source: The works of Edmund Spenser, with notes by H.J. Todd

“What more felicitie can fall to creature Than to enjoy delight with libertie, And to be lord of all the workes of Nature, To raine in th' aire from earth to highest skie, To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature.”

Earth Fall Enjoy Nature Lord Creatures Highest Delight Features Glorious Weed

Book:The poetical works of Edmund Spenser ...

Source: The poetical works of Edmund Spenser ...

“I never really did any disco dancing.”

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“Go little book, thy self present, As child whose parent is unkent: To him that is the president Of noblesse and of chivalry, And if that Envy bark at thee, As sure it will, for succour flee.”

Ifs Children Littles Book Self Parent President Envy Thee Bark Chivalry

Author:Edmund Spenser

“Fretting grief the enemy of life.”

Grief Enemy Fretting

Author:Edmund Spenser

“But as it falleth, in the gentlest hearts Imperious love hath highest set his throne, And tyrannizeth in the bitter smarts Of them, that to him buxom are and prone.”

Heart Highest Smart Bitter Thrones

Author:Edmund Spenser

“In youth, before I waxe' d old, The blind boy,Venus' baby, For want of cunning made me bold, In bitter hive to grope for honey.”

Want Made Boys Youth Baby Blind Bitter Honey Cunning Venus Hives

Author:Edmund Spenser