107 quotes
So love is Lord of all the world by right.
Colin Clouts Come Home Againe (1595)
As when in Cymbrian plaine
An heard of bulles, whom kindly rage doth sting,
Doe for the milky mothers want complaine,
And fill the fieldes with troublous bellowing.
The Faerie Queene (1589)
But of his cheere did seeme too solemne sad;
Yet nothing did he dread, but ever was ydrad.
The Faerie Queene (1589)
Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,
On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.
The Faerie Queene (1589)
Tell her the joyous Time will not be staid,
Unlesse she doe him by the forelock take.
Amoretti (1595)
I hate the day, because it lendeth light
To see all things, but not my love to see.
Song made in lieu of many ornaments,
With which my love should duly have bene dect.
Epithalamion (1595)
That beauty is not, as fond men misdeem,
An outward shew of things, that only seem.
Fowre Hymnes (1596)
All, that in this world is great or gay,
Doth as a vapour vanish, and decay.
Complaints (1591)
Is not thilke the mery moneth of May,
When love lads masken in fresh aray?
The Shepheardes Calender (1579)
Open the temple gates unto my love,
Open them wide that she may enter in.
Epithalamion (1595)
His poynant speare, that many made to bleed.
And in his hand a sickle he did holde,
To reape the ripened fruits the which the earth had yold.
The Faerie Queene (1589)
The merry cuckow, messenger of spring
His trompet shrill hath thrise already sounded.
Amoretti (1595)
As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright,
And made a sunshine in the shady place.
The Faerie Queene (1589)
See how the tyrannesse doth joy to see
The huge massacres which her eyes do make.
Amoretti (1595)
And whither rennes this bevie of ladies bright,
Raunged in a rowe?
The Shepheardes Calender (1579)
Behold, whiles she before the altar stands,
Hearing the holy priest that to her speakes,
And blesseth her with his two happy hands.
Epithalamion (1595)
To be wise and eke to love,
Is graunted scarce to God above.
The Shepheardes Calender (1579)
So dischord ofte in musick makes the sweeter lay.