Edmund Spenser: Quotes about love

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

Edmund Spenser: 106 quotes6 likes

“And all for love, and nothing for reward.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 8, stanza 2
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book II

“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)

“Fierce warres and faithfull loves shall moralize my song.”

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Introduction, stanza 1
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I

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

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene

Canto 8, stanza 1
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book II

“With that I saw two swans of goodly hue
Come softly swimming down along the Lee:
Two fairer birds I yet did never see;
The snow which doth the top of Pindus strow
Did never whiter show,
Nor Jove himself, when he a swan would be
For love of Leda, whiter did appear”

Source: Prothalamion (1596), Line 37