Quotes by Edmund Spenser

True loves are often sown, but seldom grow on ground.

#Love

She heard with patience all unto the end, And strove to maister sorrowful assay, Which...

#Love, #Patience

Be judge ye heavens, that all things right esteem, How I him loved, and love...

#Love

O how can beautie maister the most strong, And simple truth subdue avenging wrong?

#Beauty

The blazing brightnesse of her beauties beame, And glorious light of her sunshyny face To...

#Beauty

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

#Death

It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich...

#Mind

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?

#Edmund Spenser

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed...

#Edmund Spenser

I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that...

#Edmund Spenser

Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine...

#Edmund Spenser

He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.

#Edmund Spenser