Delights Quote by Edmund Spenser

“Throgh me men gon into that blysful place Of hertes hele and dedly woundes cure; Thorgh me men gon unto the welle of grace,…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles, Such…

— John Milton

“The fructe of all the servise that I serve Dispaire doth repe, such haples hap have I ; But tho he have no powre…

— Thomas Wyatt

“I must have wanton Poets, pleasant wits, Musitians, that with touching of a string May draw the pliant king which way I please: Musicke…

— Christopher Marlowe

“Benedick sat down on a bench. He would write a love poem to Beatrice. The god of love… He made up a melody for…

— William Shakespeare

How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle Deity of…

— John Armstrong

“What I wud do if I was Buller, an' I thank Hivin I'm not, wud be move me ar-rmy in half-an-hour over th' high…

— Finley Peter Dunne

From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.

— Thomas Campion

“Strike, with hand of fire, O weird musician, thy harp strung with Apollo's golden hair; fill the vast cathedral aisles with symphonies sweet and…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men dote How…

— William Shakespeare

Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate to hearse when Lycid lies.

— John Milton

“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes…

— William Shakespeare