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Edmund Spenser

1553 AD — 1599 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Historical source references

Faerie Queene
An Hymne in Honour of Beautie
The Shepheardes Calender
Mother Hubberds Tale
Muiopotmos: or, The Fate of the Butterflie
Daphnaida, v
Amoretti, lxx
Lines on his Promised Pension
Epithalamion
Printed citation: Spenser
Page 25 · printed citation: Spenser (Faerie Queene 2, XII, 67)
Page 205 · printed citation: Edmund Spenser (Daphnaïda)
Page 28 · printed citation: Spenser · subject: ANGELS
Page 44 · printed citation: Spenser · subject: AVARICE
Page 87 · printed citation: Spenser · subject: BOUNTY
Page 137 · printed citation: Spenser · subject: CONCORD
Page 183 · printed citation: Spenser · subject: DEVOTION—DEVOUT
Page 198 · printed citation: Spenser · subject: ENVY
Page 203 · printed citation: Spenser · subject: ETERNITY
Page 305 · printed citation: Spenser · subject: HOPE
Page 339 · printed citation: Spenser · subject: JUSTICE
Page 472 · printed citation: Spenser · subject: PUNISHMENT
Page 505 · printed citation: Spenser · subject: RIGHTEOUSNESS
Page 583 · printed citation: Spenser · subject: SUPPER, THE LORD’S
Page 672 · printed citation: Spenser · subject: WISDOM
Page 59 · printed citation: Spenser · subject: Deceit
Page 273 · printed citation: Spenser · subject: War
Page 278 · printed citation: Spenser · subject: Woman
Page 102 · printed citation: Spenser · subject: Gold

Archive entries

01c. 1576 AD

Fierce warres and faithful loves shall moralize my song.

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02c. 1576 AD

A gentle knight was pricking on the plaine.

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03c. 1576 AD

O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!

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04c. 1576 AD

The noblest mind the best contentment has.

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05c. 1576 AD

A bold bad man.

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06c. 1576 AD

Her angels face, As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.

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07c. 1576 AD

Ay me, how many perils doe enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall!

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08c. 1576 AD

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.

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09c. 1576 AD

Entire affection hateth nicer hands.

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10c. 1576 AD

That darksome cave they enter, where they find That cursed man, low sitting on the ground, Musing full sadly in his sullein mind.

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11c. 1576 AD

No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweete, but there it might be fownd To bud out faire, and throwe her sweete smels al arownd.

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12c. 1576 AD

And is there care in Heaven? And is there love In heavenly spirits to these Creatures bace?

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13c. 1576 AD

How oft do they their silver bowers leave To come to succour us that succour want!

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14c. 1576 AD

Eftsoones they heard a most melodious sound.

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15c. 1576 AD

Through thick and thin, both over bank and bush, In hope her to attain by hook or crook.

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16c. 1576 AD

Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew, And her conception of the joyous Prime.

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17c. 1576 AD

Roses red and violets blew, And all the sweetest flowres that in the forrest grew.

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18c. 1576 AD

Be bolde, Be bolde, and everywhere, Be bold.

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19c. 1576 AD

Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled, On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.

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20c. 1576 AD

For all that Nature by her mother-wit Could frame in earth.

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21c. 1576 AD

Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.

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22c. 1576 AD

Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?

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23c. 1576 AD

The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne; For a man by nothing is so well bewrayed As by his manners.

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24c. 1576 AD

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

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