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
grief enemy fretting
Fretting grief the enemy of life.
hands victory unjust
Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust.
smart heart thrones
But as it falleth, in the gentlest hearts Imperious love hath highest set his throne, And tyrannizeth in the bitter smarts Of them, that to him buxom are and prone.
war sight wrath
Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords.
men mind betrayed
The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.
love kings spring
Fresh spring the herald of love's mighty king.
sad long ends
Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? - Epithalamion
ambition strive lows
Those that were up themselves, kept others low; Those that were low themselves, held others hard; He suffered them to ryse or greater grow; But every one did strive his fellow down to throw.
mind contentment self-improvement
The noblest mind the best contentment has
example doctrine gracious
Much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
men heaven succeed
Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies.
god love-is lessons
So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
stars strive strife
And he that strives to touch the stars Oft stumbles at a straw.
life together chains
Together linkt with adamantine chains.