Edmund Spenser - Death Quotes

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Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas,
Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

Edmund Spenser

Death slue not him, but he made death his ladder to the skies.

Edmund Spenser

Death slew not him, but he made death his ladder to the skies.

Edmund Spenser

Most glorious Lord of life, that on this day
Didst make thy triumph over death and sin:
And, having harrowed hell, didst bring away
Captivity thence captive, us to win.

Edmund Spenser

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.

Edmund Spenser

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.

Edmund Spenser

Death is an equall doome
To good and bad, the common In of rest.

Edmund Spenser