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Edmund Spenser
English
Poet
About the author
And all for love, and nothing for reward.
Edmund Spenser,
English
Poet
#Love
#Nothing
#Reward
I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
Edmund Spenser,
English
Poet
#Time
#Reason
The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
Edmund Spenser,
English
Poet
#Will
#Death
#Poets
#Genius
#Monuments
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
Edmund Spenser,
English
Poet
#Life
#Death
#War
#Sleep
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
Edmund Spenser,
English
Poet
#Liberty
#Delight
It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
Edmund Spenser,
English
Poet
#Poor
#Mind
He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
Edmund Spenser,
English
Poet
Gold all is not that doth golden seem.
Edmund Spenser,
English
Poet
#Gold
And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.
Edmund Spenser,
English
Poet
#Stars
Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
Edmund Spenser,
English
Poet
Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
Edmund Spenser,
English
Poet
#Eye
#Heaven