Edmund Spenser: Day

Edmund Spenser was English poet. Explore interesting quotes on day.

Edmund Spenser: 106 quotes6 likes

“Ah! when will this long weary day have end,
And lende me leave to come unto my love?

- Epithalamion”

Source: Amoretti and Epithalamion

“I hate the day, because it lendeth light
To see all things, but not my love to see.”

Daphnaida, v. 407; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Full little knowest thou that hast not tride,
What hell it is in suing long to bide:
To loose good dayes, that might be better spent;
To wast long nights in pensive discontent;
To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow;
To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.
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To fret thy soule with crosses and with cares;
To eate thy heart through comfortlesse dispaires; 13
To fawne, to crowche, to waite, to ride, to ronne,
To spend, to give, to want, to be undonne.
Unhappie wight, borne to desastrous end,
That doth his life in so long tendance spend!”

Mother Hubberds Tale, line 895; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Calm was the day, and through the trembling air
Sweet-breathing Zephyrus did softly play—
A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay
Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair”

Source: Prothalamion (1596), Line 1