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Flower Quotes by Edmund Spenser

9 Flower quotes by Edmund Spenser

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If you’re drawn to the way language can bloom, this brief selection lets Spenser’s poetic eye turn toward blossoms. Though modest in number, each line offers a glimpse of his reverence for nature’s delicate detail, making a pleasant stop for anyone curious about his garden of words.

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Then came October, full of merry glee.

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Fresh spring the herald of love's mighty king.

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Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.

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She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowres That in the forrest grew.

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All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is…

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Gather therefore the Rose, whilst yet is prime, For soon comes age, that will her pride deflower: Gather the Rose of love,…

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So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life, the leaf, the bud, the flower; No more doth flourish after…

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Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow In his light wing's, is lifted up to sky; The scorn of-knighthood and true chivalry.…

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Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar…

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“All this world's glory seemeth vain to me, And all their shows but shadows, saving she.”

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The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded.

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Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry,…

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All flesh doth frailty breed!

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“The whiles some one did chaunt this louely lay; Ah see, who so faire thing doest faine to see, In springing flowre the image…

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Fretting grief the enemy of life.

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Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.

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

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

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“There is nothing lost, but may be found, if sought. (No hay nada perdido, que no pueda encontrarse, si se lo busca)”

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“It is the mynd, that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happie, rich or poore: For some, that hath abundance at his…

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

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I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.

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“For love is a celestial harmony Of likely hearts compos'd of stars' concent, Which join together in sweet sympathy, To work each other's joy…

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Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

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