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
sweet sweet-love haste
Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.
mourning absence mates
Like as the culver on the bared bough Sits mourning for the absence of her mate
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?
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
mind kind power-of-love
Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
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?
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.
bud passing passings
So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortall life the leafe, the bud, the flowre
fall liberty delight
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
order names yeoman
And through the hall there walked to and fro A jolly yeoman, marshall of the same, Whose name was Appetite; he did bestow Both guestes and meate, whenever in they came, And knew them how to order without blame.
love sweet voice
All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
mind ambitious sacred
O sacred hunger of ambitious minds.
fall return worst
From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall.
simple law people
Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right.