Edmund Spenser

Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.

— Edmund Spenser

Ah when will this long weary day have end, And lend me leave to come unto my love? How slowly do the…

— Edmund Spenser

“They that haue much, feare much to loose thereby, And store of cares doth follow riches store.”

— Edmund Spenser

For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light…

— Edmund Spenser

My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not…

— Edmund Spenser

Shepheards delights he dooth them all forsweare, Hys pleasaunt pipe, whych made us meriment, He wylfully hath broke, and doth forbeare, His…

— Edmund Spenser

Ill seemes (sayd he) if he so valiant be, That he should be so sterne to stranger wight; For seldom yet did…

— Edmund Spenser

Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With…

— Edmund Spenser

One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washèd it away: Again I wrote it with…

— Edmund Spenser

For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate's decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright.

— Edmund Spenser

Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing…

— Edmund Spenser

Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust.

— Edmund Spenser

In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.

— Edmund Spenser

This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.

— Edmund Spenser

Through knowledge we behold the world's creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature's cunning operation, How…

— Edmund Spenser

Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed…

— Edmund Spenser

Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to…

— Edmund Spenser

Pour out the wine without restraint or stay, Pour not by cups, but by the bellyful, Pour out to all that wull.

— Edmund Spenser

Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? - Epithalamion

— Edmund Spenser

Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the…

— Edmund Spenser

From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his…

— Edmund Spenser

The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate.

— Edmund Spenser

Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair

— Edmund Spenser

He oft finds med'cine, who his griefe imparts; But double griefs afflict concealing harts, As raging flames who striveth to supresse.

— Edmund Spenser

For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may…

— Edmund Spenser

Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.

— Edmund Spenser