Edmund Spenser Quotes
1552 – 1599
English poet, author of the epic "The Faerie Queene".
22 quotesAbout Edmund Spenser on Wikipedia
“I trow that countenance cannot lie, / Whose thoughts are legible in the eie.”
“Death slue not him, but he made death his ladder to the skies.”
“I hate the day, because it lendeth light / To see all things, but not my love to see.”
“To be wise and eke to love, / Is graunted scarce to God above.”
“So now they have made our English tongue, a gallimaufray or hodgepodge of al other speches.”
“All, that in this world is great or gay, / Doth as a vapour vanish, and decay.”
“I learned have, not to despise, / What ever thing seemes small in common eyes.”
“Make hast therefore sweet love, whilest it is prime, / For none can call againe the passed time.”
“Fondnesse it were for any being free, / To covet fetters, though they golden bee.”
“Ay me, how many perils doe enfold / The righteous man, to make him daily fall!”
“Who will not mercie unto others show, / How can he mercy ever hope to have?”
“Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled, On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.”
“Open the temple gates unto my love, Open them wide that she may enter in.”
“For all that faire is, is by nature good; That is a signe to know the gentle blood.”
“And he that strives to touche a starre Oft stombles at a strawe.”
