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Edmund Spenser Biography

Edmund Spenser (/ˈspɛnsər/; 1552/1553 – 13 January 1599) 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 recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of nascent Modern English verse, and is often considered one of the greatest poets in the English language.

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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.

Baby, Boys, Cunning, Hive, Want, Youth

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.

Air, Circle, Covetous, Heart, Men, Whole

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

Depressing, Pain, Painful, Pleasure, Turns

Thankfulness is the tune of angels.

Angel, Angels, Gratitude, Thankfulness, Tune

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

Beauty, Men, Misdeem, Shows, Things

All for love, and nothing for reward.

Falling In Love, Love, Love You, Nothing, Reward

I learned have, not to despise,What ever thing seemes small in common eyes.

Common, Despise, Eye, Eyes, Seemes, Small

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.

Abuse, Advancing, Art, Men, People, Price

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

Breed, Hasty, Hazardy, Rage, Repentance, Wrath

Much more profitable and gracious is doctrine by example than by rule.

Doctrine, Example, Gracious, Rule

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

Haste, Sweet, Sweet Love, Whilst

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

Fair, Fool, Heart, Win, Winning

The man whom nature's self had made to mock herself, and truth to imitate.

He Man, Imitate, Men, Mock, Self, Truth

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

Bee, Being Free, Fetters, Freedom, Golden

And thus of all my harvest-hope I have Nought reaped but a weedye crop of care.

Care, Crops, Harvest, Nought, Weedye

For deeds to die, however nobly done, And thoughts of men to as themselves decay, But wise words taught in numbers for to run, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay.

Decay, Done, Men, Running, Wise, Words

All that in this world is great or gay, Doth, as a vapor, vanish and decay.

Decay, Gay, Vapor, World

I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.

Promised, Reason, Rhyme, Rhyming, Season

Then came October, full of merry glee.

Autumn, Glee, Merry, October

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

Doome, Empire, Eternall, Fate, Heaven, Might

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