Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

- Edmund Spenser

Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.

- Edmund Spenser

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?

- Edmund Spenser

It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

- Edmund Spenser

And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.

- Edmund Spenser

Gold all is not that doth golden seem.

- Edmund Spenser

And all for love, and nothing for reward.

- Edmund Spenser

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

- Edmund Spenser

He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.

- Edmund Spenser

Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.

- Edmund Spenser

I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.

- Edmund Spenser