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Edmundspenser Quotes

  1. zimchim* zimchim*
    posted a quote
    June 12, 2015 1:03pm UTC
    "the power of love in gentle mind,
    that it can alter all the course of kind."
    -Edmund Spenser; My Love is Like to Ice

  2. zimchim* zimchim*
    posted a quote
    November 14, 2014 10:22am UTC
    One Day I Wrote Her Name
    (Edmund Spenser)
    One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
    But came the waves and washed it away:
    Again I wrote it with a second hand,
    But came the tide and made my pains his prey.
    "Vain man," said she, "that doth in vain essay
    A mortal thing so to immortalize;
    For I myself shall like to this decay,
    And eke my name be wiped out likewise."
    "Not so," qouth I; "let baser things devise
    To die in dust, but you shall live by fame;
    My verse your virtures rare shall eternize,
    And in the heavens write your glorious name:
    Where, whenas Death shall all the world subdue,
    Our love shall live, and later life renew."

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