Edmund Spenser - Love Quotes

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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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Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime,
For none can call again the passed time.

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My Love is like to ice, and I to fire:
How comes it then that this her cold so great
Is not dissolved through my so hot desire,
But harder grows the more I her entreat?

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Joy may you have and gentle hearts content
Of your loves couplement:
And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love,
With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile

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Such is the power of love in gentle mind,
That it can alter all the course of kind.

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So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought;
Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.

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

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Waking love suffereth no sleepe:
Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke:
Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.

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Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.

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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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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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With that I saw two swans of goodly hue
Come softly swimming down along the Lee:
Two fairer birds I yet did never see;
The snow which doth the top of Pindus strow
Did never whiter show,
Nor Jove himself, when he a swan would be
For love of Leda, whiter did appear

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Ah! when will this long weary day have end,
And lend me leave to come unto my love?

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Fierce wars and faithful loves shall moralize my song.

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Gather therefore the Rose, whilst yet is prime, For soon comes age, that will her pride deflower: Gather the Rose of love, whilst yet is time.

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Ah when will this long weary day have end, And lend me leave to come unto my love? How slowly do the hours their numbers spend! How slowly does sad Time his feathers move!

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Open the temple gates unto my love,
Open them wide that she may enter in.

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Fierce warres and faithfull loves shall moralize my song.

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To be wise and eke to love,
Is granted scarce to gods above.

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There is continual spring, and harvest there Continual, both meeting at one time: For both the boughs do laughing blossoms bear, And with fresh colours deck the wanton prime, And eke attonce the heavy trees they climb, Which seem to labour under their fruits load: The whiles the joyous birds make their pastime Amongst the shady leaves, their sweet above, And their true loves without suspicion tell abroad.

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And is there care in Heaven? And is there love
In heavenly spirits to these Creatures bace?

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Song made in lieu of many ornaments,
With which my love should duly have been decked.

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