Edmund Spenser - Earth Quotes

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And in his hand a sickle he did holde,
To reape the ripened fruits the which the earth had yold.

Edmund Spenser

What though the sea with waves continual Doe eat the earth, it is no more at all ; Ne is the earth the lesse, or loseth ought : For whatsoever from one place doth fall Is with the tide unto another brought : For there is nothing lost, that may be found if sought.

Edmund Spenser

O happy earth,
Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!

Edmund Spenser

For all that Nature by her mother-wit
Could frame in earth.

Edmund Spenser

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.

Edmund Spenser

All sorts of flowers the which on earth do spring
In goodly colours gloriously arrayed;
Go to my love, where she is careless laid

Edmund Spenser