Edmund Spenser quotes

Edmund Spenser was an English poet most famous for his epic poem "The Faerie Queene." His work had a profound influence on English literature and the development of poetic forms during the Renaissance. He is recognized as one of the greatest poets of the Elizabethan era. Here are 62 of his quotes:

Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place. (Edmund Spenser)
I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason. View quote
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And all for love, and nothing for reward. View quote
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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowres That in the forrest grew. View quote
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The noblest mind the best contentment has. View quote
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And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine. View quote
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Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small. View quote
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The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. View quote
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Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed sourse,And being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse. View quote
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How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall. View quote
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A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine. (Edmund Spenser)
The nightingale is sovereign of song. View quote
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I learned have, not to despise,What ever thing seemes small in common eyes. View quote
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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. View quote
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For all that faire is, is by nature good;That is a signe to know the gentle blood. View quote
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Fierce warres and faithfull loves shall moralize my song. View quote
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Entire affection hateth nicer hands. View quote
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I trow that countenance cannot lie,Whose thoughts are legible in the eie. View quote
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O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread! View quote
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty. View quote
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Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please. (Edmund Spenser)
No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweete, but there it might be fownd To bud out faire, and throwe her sweete smels al arownd. View quote
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Death slue not him, but he made death his ladder to the skies. View quote
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But Justice, though her dome [doom] she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right. View quote
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The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne. For a man by nothing is so well bewrayd, As by his manners. View quote
Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser - Image
Occupation: English Poet
Born: 1552
Died: January 13, 1599
Quotes count: 62
Wikipedia: Edmund Spenser

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