Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenserwas an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of nascent Modern English verse, and is often considered one of the greatest poets in the English language...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
grow loves seldom true
True loves are often sown, but seldom grow on ground.
creature full hart humorous humour limbs saw side soft softly sunny sweet
Whiles every sence teh humour sweet embayd, / And slombring soft my hart did steale away, / Me seemed, by my side a royall Mayd / Her daintie limbs full softly down did lay: / So faire a creature yet saw never sunny day.
discord lays
Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
heart iron mind
This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
nor promised reason received rhyme time unto
I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason
good maketh mind wretch
It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
strives
He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
death ease greatly life port sleep stormy war
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
judge love
Be judge ye heavens, that all things right esteeme, / How I him loved, and love with all my might, / So thought I eke of him, and thinke I thought aright.
beauty blood gentle
For all that faire is, is by nature good;That is a signe to know the gentle blood.
taste
There is no disputing about taste.
fall men righteous-man
How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
firsts vain temper
In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.
wise reflection blow
For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow.