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
may lost found
For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought.
Be bold, and everywhere be bold.
love-you rewards
All for love, and nothing for reward.
time rose rose-flower
Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
feet doe earth
O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!
jealousy heart monsters
Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall, Turning all love's delight to misery, Through fear of losing his felicity.
flower blow men
Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow In his light wing's, is lifted up to sky; The scorn of-knighthood and true chivalry. To think, without desert of gentle deed And noble worth, to be advanced high, Such praise is shame, but honour, virtue's meed, Doth bear the fairest flower in honourable seed.
purple vow malice
So furiously each other did assayle, As if their soules they would attonce haue rent Out of their brests, that streames of bloud did rayle Adowne, as if their springes of life were spent; That all the ground with purple bloud was sprent, And all their armours staynd with bloudie gore, Yet scarcely once to breath would they relent, So mortall was their malice and so sore, Become of fayned friendship which they vow'd afore.
wine cups restraint
Pour out the wine without restraint or stay, Pour not by cups, but by the bellyful, Pour out to all that wull.
eye angel sunshine
Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
survival stones genius
The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
men should
Why then should witless man so much misweene That nothing is but that which he hath seene?
reason rhyme seasons
I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
greatness rich-or-poor mind
The mind maketh good or ill, wretch or happy, rich or poor.