110+ Edmund Spenser Quotes On Ice, William Shakespeare And Ice Analysis

Edmund Spenser was an English poet and a member of the Elizabethan era. He is best known for his epic poem The Faerie Queene, an allegorical work celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is also remembered for his amoretti, a series of sonnets about love and courtship. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Edmund Spenser on life, love, ice.

Top 10 Edmund Spenser Quotes

1. Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
2. The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded.
3. Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
4. She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowres That in the forrest grew.
5. So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught.
6. I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
7. I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, but not my love to see.
8. Such is the power of love in gentle mind, That it can alter all the course of kind.
9. Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
10. Sluggish idleness--the nurse of sin.

Edmund Spenser Short Quotes

• So much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.
• All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.
• And thus of all my harvest-hope I have Nought reaped but a weedye crop of care.
• All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.
• Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
• I trow that countenance cannot lie,Whose thoughts are legible in the eie.
• Hard it is to teach the old horse to amble anew.
• Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.
• Vaine is the vaunt, and victory unjust, that more to mighty hands, then rightfull cause doth trust.
• What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?

Edmund Spenser Quotes About Life

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. — Edmund Spenser

So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortall life the leafe, the bud, the flowre — 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

Fretting grief the enemy of life. — Edmund Spenser

It often falls, in course of common life, that right long time is overborne of wrong. — Edmund Spenser

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

Together linkt with adamantine chains. — Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser Quotes About Love

All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever. — Edmund Spenser

Nothing under heaven so strongly doth allure the sense of man, and all his mind possess, as beauty's love. — Edmund Spenser

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

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. — Edmund Spenser

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

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? — Edmund Spenser

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

Fresh spring the herald of love's mighty king. — Edmund Spenser

Fierce warres and faithfull loves shall moralize my song. — Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser Quotes About Hath

In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue. — Edmund Spenser

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. — Edmund Spenser

Why then should witless man so much misweene That nothing is but that which he hath seene? — Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser Quotes About Doom

For we by conquest, of our soveraine might,And by eternall doome of Fate's decree,Have wonne the Empire of the Heavens bright. — Edmund Spenser

But Justice, though her dome doom she doe prolong,Yet at the last she will her owne cause right. — Edmund Spenser

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

Edmund Spenser Famous Quotes And Sayings

Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow In his light wing's, is lifted up to sky; The scorn of-knighthood and true chivalry. To think, without desert of gentle deed And noble worth, to be advanced high, Such praise is shame, but honour, virtue's meed, Doth bear the fairest flower in honourable seed. — Edmund Spenser

A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books-- I trow that countenance cannot lye Whose thoughts are legible in the eye. — Edmund Spenser

So Orpheus did for his owne bride, So I unto my selfe alone will sing, The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring. — Edmund Spenser

Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow. — Edmund Spenser

For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night. — Edmund Spenser

Ill seemes (sayd he) if he so valiant be, That he should be so sterne to stranger wight; For seldom yet did living creature see That courtesie and manhood ever disagree. — Edmund Spenser

Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay. — Edmund Spenser

There is no disputing about taste. — Edmund Spenser

Hasty wrath and heedless hazardy do breed repentance late and lasting infamy. — Edmund Spenser

How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall. — Edmund Spenser

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? — Edmund Spenser

Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have? — Edmund Spenser

For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds 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. — Edmund Spenser

Pour out the wine without restraint or stay, Pour not by cups, but by the bellyful, Pour out to all that wull. — Edmund Spenser

A circle cannot fill a triangle, so neither can the whole world, if it were to be compassed, the heart of man; a man may as easily fill a chest with grace as the heart with gold. The air fills not the body, neither doth money the covetous mind of man. — Edmund Spenser

And through the hall there walked to and fro A jolly yeoman, marshall of the same, Whose name was Appetite; he did bestow Both guestes and meate, whenever in they came, And knew them how to order without blame. — Edmund Spenser

The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners. — Edmund Spenser

The poets scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. — Edmund Spenser

And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine. — Edmund Spenser

At last, the golden orientall gate Of greatest heaven gan to open fayre, And Phoebus, fresh as brydegrome to his mate, Came dauncing forth, shaking his dewie hayre; And hurls his glistring beams through gloomy ayre. — Edmund Spenser

How many great ones may remember'd be, Which in their days most famously did flourish, Of whom no word we hear, nor sign now see, But as things wip'd out with a sponge do perish, Because the living cared not to cherish No gentle wits, through pride or covetize, Which might their names forever memorize! — Edmund Spenser

In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate. — Edmund Spenser

The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne. — Edmund Spenser

For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought. — Edmund Spenser

There learned arts do flourish in great honour And poets's wits are had in peerless price; Religion hath lay power, to rest upon her, Advancing virtue, and suppressing vice. For end all good, all grace there freely grows, Had people grace it gratefully to use: For God His gifts there plenteously bestows, But graceless men them greatly do abuse. — Edmund Spenser

A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine. — Edmund Spenser

For that which all men then did virtue call, Is now called vice; and that which vice was hight, Is now hight virtue, and so used of all: Right now is wrong, and wrong that was is right — Edmund Spenser

Me seemes the world is runne quite out of square,From the first point of his appointed sourse,And being once amisse growes daily wourse and wourse. — Edmund Spenser

This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate. — Edmund Spenser

Thankfulness is the tune of angels. — Edmund Spenser

For whatsoever from one place doth fall, Is with the tide unto an other brought: For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought. — Edmund Spenser

From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall. — Edmund Spenser

In youth, before I waxe' d old, The blind boy,Venus' baby, For want of cunning made me bold, In bitter hive to grope for honey. — Edmund Spenser

Fly from wrath; sad be the sights and bitter fruits of war; a thousand furies wait on wrathful swords. — Edmund Spenser

Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought — Edmund Spenser

Men, when their actions succeed not as they would, are always ready to impute the blame thereof to heaven, so as to excuse their own follies. — Edmund Spenser

Sweet is the rose, but grows upon a brere; Sweet is the juniper, but sharp his bough; Sweet is the eglantine, but stiketh nere; Sweet is the firbloome, but its braunches rough; Sweet is the cypress, but its rynd is tough; Sweet is the nut, but bitter is his pill; Sweet is the broome-flowre, but yet sowre enough; And sweet is moly, but his root is ill. — Edmund Spenser

But O the exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels, he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe. — Edmund Spenser

Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee. — Edmund Spenser

The nightingale is sovereign of song. — Edmund Spenser

Change still doth reign, and keep the greater sway. — Edmund Spenser

Sweet breathing Zephyrus did softly play, A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair — Edmund Spenser

Oft stumbles at a straw. — Edmund Spenser

Laws ought to be fashioned unto the manners and conditions of the people whom they are meant to benefit, and not imposed upon them according to the simple rule of right. — Edmund Spenser

Where justice grows, there grows eke greater grace. — Edmund Spenser

Ah! when will this long weary day have end, And lende me leave to come unto my love? - Epithalamion — Edmund Spenser

Through knowledge we behold the world's creation, How in his cradle first he fostered was; And judge of Nature's cunning operation, How things she formed of a formless mass. — Edmund Spenser

Who would ever care to do brave deed, Or strive in virtue others to excel, If none should yield him his deserved meed Due praise, that is the spur of doing well? For if good were not praised more than ill, None would choose goodness of his own free will. — Edmund Spenser

Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit! — Edmund Spenser

He oft finds med'cine, who his griefe imparts; But double griefs afflict concealing harts, As raging flames who striveth to supresse. — Edmund Spenser

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! — Edmund Spenser

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain. — Edmund Spenser

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. — Edmund Spenser

Man's wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late. — Edmund Spenser

The noblest mind the best contentment has — Edmund Spenser

Each goodly thing is hardest to begin. — Edmund Spenser

What though the sea with waves continuall Doe eate 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 tyde unto another brought : For there is nothing lost, that may be found if sought. — Edmund Spenser

The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite. — Edmund Spenser

After her came jolly June, arrayed All in green leaves, as he a player were; Yet in his time he wrought as well as played, That by his plough-irons mote right well appear. Upon a crab he rode, that did him bear, With crooked crawling steps, an uncouth pace, And backward rode, as bargemen wont to fare, Bending their force contrary to their face; Like that ungracious crew which feigns demurest grace. — Edmund Spenser

The paynefull smith, with force of fervent heat, The hardest yron soone doth mollify, That with his heavy sledge he can it beat, And fashion it to what he it list apply. — Edmund Spenser

For all that faire is, is by nature good;That is a signe to know the gentle blood. — Edmund Spenser

But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak. — Edmund Spenser

Ah, fool! faint heart fair lady ne'er could win. — Edmund Spenser

Entire affection hateth nicer hands. — Edmund Spenser

For of the soule the bodie forme doth take; For the soule is forme, and doth the bodie make. — Edmund Spenser

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? — Edmund Spenser

Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem. — 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

So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortal life, the leaf, the bud, the flower; No more doth flourish after first decay, That erst was sought to deck both bed and bower Of many a lady and many a paramour. Gather therefore the rose whilst yet in prime, For soon comes age that will her pride deflower. Gather the rose of love whilst yet in time, Whilst loving thou mayst loved be with equal crime. — Edmund Spenser

The Patron of true Holinesse, Foule Errour doth defeate: Hypocrisie him to entrappe, Doth to his home entreate. — 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

Life Lessons by Edmund Spenser

1. Edmund Spenser's poetry often focuses on the power of perseverance and the importance of maintaining a positive outlook in the face of adversity. He encourages readers to strive for greatness and to never give up on their dreams.
2. Spenser also emphasizes the importance of friendship and loyalty, and the need to be kind and generous to those around us. He encourages us to be mindful of our actions and to be considerate of the feelings of others.
3. Finally, Spenser reminds us to appreciate the beauty of life and to take the time to enjoy the simple pleasures that life has to offer. He encourages us to find joy in the little things and to be thankful for the blessings we have.