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Edmund Spenser [1552-1599] English
Rank: 104
Poet (with poems)

Elizabethan, Fantasy, Gothic, Laureate, Renaissance, Sonnet


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.

Death, Great, War



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Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place. Great
101
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please. Death, War
102
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
103
It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
104
Gold all is not that doth golden seem.
105
And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.
106
He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
107
And all for love, and nothing for reward.
108
Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
109
The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
110
I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
111

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