What did Edmund Spenser mean by: To be wise and eke to love,Is granted scarce to gods above. - Edmund Spenser Poet · England Copy
+ For if good were not praised more than ill, None would chuse goodness of his own free will. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Edmund Spenser, Free Will, Goodness, Praise, 0 - Edmund Spenser Poet · England
+ So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought; Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Edmund Spenser, Lesson, Lord, Love, 0 - Edmund Spenser Poet · England
+ For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne. Feraz Zeid, September 20, 2023December 24, 2023, Edmund Spenser, Deeds, Evil, 0 - Edmund Spenser Poet · England
+ Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Edmund Spenser, Beauty, Deception, Perception, 0 - Edmund Spenser Poet · England
+ Death is an equall doome To good and bad, the common In of rest. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Edmund Spenser, Death, Equality, 0 - Edmund Spenser Poet · England
+ Man’s wretched state, That floures so fresh at morne, and fades at evening late. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Edmund Spenser, Human, Nature, Transience, 0 - Edmund Spenser Poet · England
+ All flesh doth frailty breed! Feraz Zeid, June 3, 2023December 12, 2023, Edmund Spenser, Flesh, Frailty, Mistake, 0 - Edmund Spenser Poet · England
+ For since mine eyes your joyous sight did miss, my cheerful day is turned to cheerless night. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Edmund Spenser, Longing, Sad, Separation, 0 - Edmund Spenser Poet · England
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