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
passion waking rage
Waking love suffereth no sleepe: Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke: Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
freedom being-free golden
Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
singing answers woods
So Orpheus did for his owne bride, So I unto my selfe alone will sing, The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring.
art mourning broke
good Hobbinoll, what garres thee greete? What! hath some wolfe thy tender lambes ytorne? Or is thy bagpype broke, that soundes so sweete? Or art thou of thy loved lasse forlorne?
spring flower earth
All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring In goodly colours gloriously arrayed; Go to my love, where she is careless laid
mourning absence mates
Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate
heart joy venus
Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile
sweet sweet-love haste
Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
love-is ice fire
My Love is like to ice, and I to fire: How comes it then that this her cold so great Is not dissolved through my so hot desire, But harder grows the more I her entreat?
evil may deeds
For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.
death ease greatly life port sleep stormy war
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
strives
He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
good maketh mind wretch
It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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