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I hate the day, because it lendeth light
To see all things, but not my love to see.
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Dan Chaucer, well of English undefiled,
On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be filed.
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For all that fair is, is by nature good;
That is a sign to know the gentle blood.
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But on his breast a bloody cross he bore,
The dear remembrance of his dying Lord.
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What man that sees the ever-whirling wheel
Of Change, the which all mortal things doth sway,
But that thereby doth find, and plainly feel,
How Mutability in them doth play
Her cruel sports, to many men's decay?
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Pour out the wine without restraint or stay,
Pour not by cups, but by the bellyful,
Pour out to all that wull.
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Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease,
And layes the soul to sleepe in quiet grave?
Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas,
Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.
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For all that Nature by her mother-wit
Could frame in earth.
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Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is, in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow.
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What more felicitie can fall to creature
Than to enjoy delight with libertie,
And to be lord of all the workes of Nature,
To raine in th' aire from earth to highest skie,
To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature.
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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.
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For who so list into the heavens looke, And search the courses of the rowling spheares, Shall find that from the point, where first they tooke Their setting forth, in these few thousand yeares They all are wandred much; that plaine appears.
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Fondnesse it were for any being free,
To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
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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.
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Full many mischiefs follow cruel wrath;
Abhorred bloodshed and tumultuous strife
Unmanly murder and unthrifty scath,
Bitter despite, with rancor's rusty knife;
And fretting grief the enemy of life;
All these and many evils more, haunt ire.
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Good is no good, but if it be spend,
God giveth good for none other end.
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For easy things, that may be got at will, Most sorts of men do set but little store.
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Yet neither spinnes, nor cards, ne cares nor fretts, But to her mother Nature all her care she letts.
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What man so wise, what earthly wit so ware,
As to descry the crafty cunning train,
By which deceit doth mask in visor fair,
And cast her colours dyed deep in grain,
To seem like truth, whose shape she well can feign,
And fitting gestures to her purpose frame,
The guiltless man with guile to entertain?
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Good Hobbinoll, what garres thee greete?
What! hath some wolfe thy tender lambes ytorne?
Or is thy bagpype broke, that soundes so sweete?
Or art thou of thy loved lasse forlorne?
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He oft finds med'cine, who his griefe imparts; But double griefs afflict concealing harts, As raging flames who striveth to supresse.
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Working her formall rowmes in wexen frame, The grieslie Tode-stoole growne there mought I se And loather Paddocks lording on the same.
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Lastly came Winter cloathed all in frize, Chattering his teeth for cold that did him chill; Whilst on his hoary beard his breath did freese, And the dull drops, that from his purpled bill As from a limebeck did adown distill: In his right hand a tipped staffe he held, With which his feeble steps he stayed still; For he was faint with cold, and weak with eld; That scarce his loosed limbes he hable was to weld.
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Go little book, thy self present, As child whose parent is unkent: To him that is the president Of noblesse and of chivalry, And if that Envy bark at thee, As sure it will, for succour flee.
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For next to Death is Sleepe to be compared;
Therefore his house is unto his annext:
Here Sleepe, ther Richesse, and hel-gate them both betwext.
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Edmund Spenser
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Died:
January 13, 1599
Bio:
Edmund Spenser was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I.
Known for:
The Faerie Queene
Amoretti (1595)
The Shepheardes Calender
A view of the present state of Ireland
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