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
heart iron mind
This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.
good maketh mind wretch
It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
greatness rich-or-poor mind
The mind maketh good or ill, wretch or happy, rich or poor.
men heaven mind
Nothing under heaven so strongly doth allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty's love.
mind kind power-of-love
Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
mind ambitious sacred
O sacred hunger of ambitious minds.
men mind betrayed
The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners.
mind contentment self-improvement
The noblest mind the best contentment has
balance doth east heaven light mind thou thy weigh wind wise
For take thy balance if thou be so wise And weigh the wind 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.
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.
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
strives
He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.