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...
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ProfessionPoet
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
beauty blood gentle
For all that faire is, is by nature good;That is a signe to know the gentle blood.
fall men righteous-man
How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.
firsts vain temper
In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.
wise reflection blow
For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds 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.
nurse sin sluggish
Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin.
care harvest crops
And thus of all my harvest-hope I have Nought reaped but a weedye crop of care.
spring cuckoos messengers
The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded.
beauty men shows
Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.
justice lasts domes
But Justice, though her dome doom she doe prolong,Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.