Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
"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. He is recognised as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy, and is often considered one of the greatest poets in the English language.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous poets! More Edmund Spenser on Wikipedia.It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
True loves are often sown, but seldom grow on ground.
Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
Fresh spring the herald of love's mighty king.
And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.
And all for love, and nothing for reward.
For take thy balance if thou be so wise And weigh the wind that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow.
Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
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